Politics

Where Is Inequality Headed?

What History and Economics Tell Us About Inequality's Future

  • Anthony Atkinson

Slavery, Emancipation, and Equality

Wesson Lecture Discussion

  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • Joshua Cohen
  • David Hollinger

Arresting Robert Mugabe

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell.

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu

The Book

When two scientists discover a book looted by the Nazis, they seek out the rightful heir and in the process explore the reparations process of early postwar days.

  • Karin Andert
  • Niko Kohls

Direct Expression

An interview with the dissident poet and essayist Kirill Medvedev about a new Russian left.

  • Emma Goldhammer

Twelve Absent Men

Rebuilding the American Jury

  • Albert W. Dzur

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The Syria Dilemma

This book focuses on the ethical and political dilemmas at the heart of the debate about Syria and the possibility of humanitarian intervention in today’s world.

  • Danny Postel
  • Nader Hashemi

Iran’s Olive Branch

What Rouhani’s presidential victory means for Iran-U.S. relations.

  • Akbar Ganji

The Republic of Choosing

Cass Sunstein's new book shows that "nudging" has its limits.

  • William H. Simon

The Rise of Narendra Modi

A new biography tells the story of his rise to political prominence.

  • Zahir Janmohamed

Can Liberals Get a Witness?

The left’s separation from the churches means continuing estrangement from middle America.

  • Claude S. Fischer

War Without Strategy

The United States relies on drones to make up for its lack of coherent policy in the war on terrorism.

  • Jonathan Hafetz

Turkey’s Non-Crisis

The streets of Istanbul are alive with democratic politics—not dramatic upheaval.

  • Wajahat Ali
  • Haroon Moghul

Government Loansharking

An Update on the Student-Debt Crisis

  • Malcolm Harris

The Promise and Limits of Private Power

Richard M. Locke at the Watson Institute

  • Richard M. Locke

“What Are Foundations For?” at Harvard

Rob Reich discusses his views on the role of foundations in democratic societies, as articulated in his Boston Review forum essay "What Are Foundations For?" 

  • Rob Reich

What Are Foundations For?

Philanthropic institutions are plutocratic by nature. Can they be justified in a democracy?

  • Rob Reich
with responses from
  • Christopher J. Coyne
  • Stanley N. Katz
  • Diane Ravitch
  • Deborah Fung
  • Paul Brest
  • Rick Cohen
  • Tyler Cowen
  • Seana Valentine Shiffrin
  • Pablo Eisenberg
  • Larry Kramer
  • Eric Beerbohm
  • Robert K. Ross
  • Gara LaMarche
  • Emma Saunders-Hastings

Justice Postponed in Guatemala

Ríos Montt—and the United States—evade reckoning with the past.

  • Lauren Carasik

Rethinking the War on Terror

President Obama’s speech on counterterrorism strategy fell short on substance.

  • Elizabeth Goitein
  • Faiza Patel

Praying to Allah on Bastille Day

Winner of the 2012–2013 Boston Review Essay Contest

  • Kate Korman

“No to Profit”

Chileans fight back against privatized higher education.

  • Lili Loofbourow

The Other Side of the Wall

Immigration Reform from the Migrant’s Perspective

  • Adam Goodman

Crossing the Line

Latinos are a growing portion of the population, with an increasing capacity to swing outcomes at the ballot box.

  • Tanya Golash-Boza

Taxing Away Inequality

A Conversation with Emmanuel Saez

  • David B. Grusky
  • Emmanuel Saez
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