Politics

A People’s Anthology: Episode Five

The Combahee River Collective Statement.

  • Rosie Gillies
  • Boston Review

A People’s Anthology: Episode Three

“The Black Revolution: A Struggle for Political Power” by Jesse Gray. 

  • Rosie Gillies
  • Boston Review

A People’s Anthology: Episode Four

“Power Anywhere There’s People” by Fred Hampton.

  • Rosie Gillies
  • Boston Review

A People’s Anthology: Episode Two

“The July Rebellions and the ‘Military State’” by Jack O’Dell. 

  • Rosie Gillies
  • Boston Review

Who Deserves to Be Forgiven?

Forgiveness is a public good, but it is doled out unevenly. Justice demands we widen its reach beyond the select few.

  • Joseph Margulies

A People’s Anthology: Episode One

Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones’s “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”

  • Rosie Gillies

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A People’s Anthology

A podcast reading series of radical essays and speeches from U.S. history.

  • Rosie Gillies

From Revolution to Reformism

Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?

  • Adam Przeworski

Crises and Common Sense

The pandemic holds important political lessons for the climate crisis, but they must be taught.

  • Aaron Karp

How Nations Heal

We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.

  • Colleen Murphy

Where Trumpism Lives

Pro-Trump support remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, diversifying suburbs—not by Rust Belt economic despair.

  • Jacob Whiton

Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol

Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.

  • William Callison
  • Quinn Slobodian

Realizing a Green Future

A transcript of our panel discussion on the Green New Deal and our new issue, Climate Action.

  • Edward J. Markey
  • David G. Victor
  • Alyssa Battistoni
  • Thea Riofrancos
  • Robert C. Hockett
  • Joshua Cohen

The Fight Ahead

The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old-fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.

  • Bernard E. Harcourt

A More Perfect Meritocracy

Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.

  • Agnes Callard

What We Still Get Wrong About Alexander Hamilton

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.

  • Christian Parenti
  • Michael Busch

How Did the GOP Become the Party of Ideas?

If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start.

  • Lawrence B. Glickman

How Americans Came to Distrust Science

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on.

  • Andrew Jewett

Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization

The French Algerian writer steadfastly defended democracy and humanity against dogmatic ideologies of all stripes.

  • Mugambi Jouet

Why Privatization Is Wrong

It threatens the very foundation of political legitimacy.

  • Chiara Cordelli

Is There a War on Thanksgiving?

Some on the right insist that efforts to curtail Thanksgiving are in reality sinister attempts to rewrite the country’s history.

  • Jonathan Beecher Field

How to Fix the Climate

Diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.

  • David G. Victor
  • Charles Sabel
with responses from
  • Alyssa Battistoni
  • Jessica F. Green
  • Robert C. Hockett
  • Thea Riofrancos
  • Catherine Coleman Flowers
  • David Wallace-Wells

Against Returning to Normal

Joe Biden positioned himself as the “return to normalcy” candidate. But normalcy is not something we can afford—we must actively resist it.

  • David Austin Walsh

Biden Must Put Democracy First

Unless we bolster its foundations, our enfeebled democracy won’t be able to solve any of the daunting problems Biden has singled out as priorities.

  • Archon Fung
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