The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

The passage of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act should be celebrated, but without explicit corporate guardrails it’s doomed.

The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people. A new book considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Final Response: The path ahead is steep, but we have the intellectual resources to forge a more egalitarian constitutional order.

There’s far more to progressive political economy than market competition and reverence for business.

Achieving the potential of our founding principles requires us to ask hard questions.

Past progressive legal traditions offer valuable lessons, but reformers must also look to the future.

In practice, domestic equality has often relied on dominance and exclusion.

We must decouple the law from value-blind formalism.

Critics say human rights discourse blunts social transformation. It doesn't have to.

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

The language of universal rights can be a powerful tool for advancing social justice.

Recent union drives point the way to more effective action against corporate power.

It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.

In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.

When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.

The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.