Politics

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

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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

Defending Freedom of Conscience and Religion Abroad

The Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom responds to criticism.

  • Katrina Lantos Swett

The Good of the Child

Is there actually a right to know one’s biogenetic familial origins?

  • Charlotte Witt

Strapped

My eight years with a gun.

  • Hal Stucker

Muslims Need Not Apply

Disband the International Commission on Religious Freedom

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Unfinished Revolution

Dr. King’s goal was full employment and universal health care.

  • J. Phillip Thompson

The Day Wikipedia Went Dark

The free Internet will rise or fall on the involvement and ingenuity of the people, not on courts or lawmakers.

  • Edward Lee

Islamophobia Is Bad for Business

Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment has cost the United States and the West a number of business opportunities.

  • Massoud Hayoun
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