Politics

The Port Huron Statement at 50

Reassessing the document that sparked an era of activism.

  • Tom Hayden
with responses from
  • Kim Phillips-Fein
  • Bill Ayers
  • Angus Johnston
  • Eric Mann
  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Danielle Allen
  • Jennifer Hochschild
  • Trevor Stutz
  • Bernardine Dohrn

My Dinner with Andrew Breitbart

Breaking bread with the right’s bad boys.

  • Bill Ayers

The Future of Black Politics

With black civil society in retreat, how can we rebuild black politics?

  • Michael C. Dawson
with responses from
  • William Julius Wilson
  • Andra Gillespie
  • Tommie Shelby
  • Rev. Patrick H. O’Connor
  • Jennifer L. Hochschild
  • Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres
  • Dorian T. Warren
  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Contraception and Counterrevolution

An Interview with Corey Robin

  • Corey Robin
  • David V. Johnson

The Cure

Can doctors change how they think?

  • Suzanne Gordon

Blaming Islam

A Boston Review Book

  • John R. Bowen

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Beautiful Resistance

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Friends and Dictators

Cozying up to central Asia’s most brutal regimes.

  • Tara McKelvey

No Saudi Spring

The anatomy of a failed revolution.

  • Madawi Al-Rasheed

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

Can Apple Shape Up?

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

  • Dara O’Rourke
  • David V. Johnson

The Past is not Past

Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

  • Jonathan Brater

Blunt Instrument

Sanctions don’t promote democratic change.

  • Natasha Bahrami
  • Trita Parsi

The Holy Game

Big spectacle games are made for professions of faith, and holy language is exactly the right fit.

  • Jason Anthony

The Soft Side of Regime Change

On Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice.

  • Flynt Leverett
  • Hillary Mann Leverett

A Better Deal

Obama’s State of the Union Announces Populist Re-election Bid

  • David Biespiel

Digital Culture Wars

Contemporary American politics privileges policing and punishment, while marginalizing the arts and the commons.

  • Frank Pasquale

An Acquired Taste

Swinton gives her all to the martyred victim in We Need to Talk about Kevin.

  • Alan A. Stone

Outing Iran

Publishing news of discrimination against homosexuals in Iran.

  • David William Turner

Poetry Fights Back

Modern Pashtun poetry is a poetry of resistance.

  • Shaheen Buneri

A World on Fire

Life and death in a New Orleans squat.

  • Danelle Morton

Citizen Philosophers

Teaching philosophy in Brazil is a political project.

  • Carlos Fraenkel

Not So Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Steven Pinker’s Good News

  • Claude S. Fischer
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