Class & Inequality

A New Hamiltonianism

An Interview with Michael Lind

  • Michael Lind
  • John Stoehr

Back To Full Employment

A Boston Review Book

  • Robert Pollin

Practice Makes Citizens

An Interview with Meira Levinson

  • Meira Levinson
  • Kip M. Hustace

The Primal Ache

What Adam Smith Knew about Inequality

  • John Paul Rollert

How to Be Poor

The “culture of poverty” isn’t about moral failure but about reasonable adaptation to circumstances.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Capitalism and the Urban Struggle

An Interview with David Harvey

  • David Harvey
  • David V. Johnson

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State of the Nation: No Middle Ground

America’s Growing Income Segregation

  • Kendra Bischoff
  • Sean F. Reardon

That’s Not Really Destroying America

An interview with Fischer about his new BR column.

  • Claude S. Fischer
  • David V. Johnson

The American Left, Liberalism, and Equality

An interview with historian Eli Zaretsky.

  • Eli Zaretsky
  • Sean Fabery

In Vain Have We Sanctioned

Harsher measures against Iran won’t work.

  • Akbar Ganji

Good Jobs

Three Reasons There Aren’t More

  • Paul Osterman

Elevating the Discourse

An Interview with Robert C. Post

  • Robert C. Post
  • Kip M. Hustace

Storms Without Names

Climate Change Wreaking Havoc in Central America

  • Douglas Haynes

What We Owe to Each Other

David Graeber on student loan debt, academia, and the value of education.

  • David Graeber
  • David V. Johnson

What We Owe to Each Other

David Graeber on why we don’t put babies’ lives ahead of Citibank’s shareholders and whether we should renew the tradition of debt jubilees.

  • David Graeber
  • David V. Johnson

No Parties, No Banners

The Spanish experiment with direct democracy.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
  • Ernesto Ganuza

The End of Nothing

Segregation Is Still a Problem in the United States

  • Ryan D. Enos

Can Apple Shape Up?

Examining the global supply chains and labor practices of the high-tech industry.

  • Dara O’Rourke
  • David V. Johnson

Blunt Instrument

Sanctions don’t promote democratic change.

  • Natasha Bahrami
  • Trita Parsi

The Return of Inequality

How the Occupy Movement Shifted Electoral Politics

  • Ari Paul

The Networked Era: An Interview with Michael Nielsen

Why discussion boards and online marketplaces can make it easier for scientists to pool their data and find far-flung collaborators.

  • Michael Nielsen
  • Lindsey Gilbert

A World on Fire

Life and death in a New Orleans squat.

  • Danelle Morton

A Shared Fate

Europeans might accept supranational democracy in theory, but cannot see it as part of their lives.

  • Jan-Werner Müller

Occupation as Fairness

What John Rawls Would Make of the Occupy Movement

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Seth Resler
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