Politics

The Boomerang Comes Back

How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

  • Noura Erakat

The New MAGA Coalition

There are tensions in his motley coalition, but left-liberal fractures may be even worse.

  • David Austin Walsh

Resisting Trump’s Immigration Machine

It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

  • Lauren Carasik

Blood Ties

Trump’s “invasion” narrative and the real story of pain in America.

  • Jeanne Morefield

The Lexicon of Empire

The long battle between liberals and Black intellectuals over the meaning of colonialism.

  • Sam Klug

The “Terrorists” in My Grandmother’s Neighborhood

Not only a tool to justify U.S. and Israeli intervention, the label is increasingly dividing Iranian society from within.

  • Alex Shams

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Syria’s “Human Debris”

The new government’s greatest challenge may be rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of barbaric state violence.

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached

“It’s Our Job to Be Popular”

A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.

  • Maurice Mitchell
  • Daniel Cantor

The AI We Deserve

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

  • Evgeny Morozov
with responses from
  • Brian Eno
  • Audrey Tang
  • Terry Winograd
  • Bruce Schneier & Nathan Sanders
  • Sarah Myers West & Amba Kak
  • Wendy Liu
  • Edward Ongweso Jr.
  • Brian Merchant

Becoming Lula

How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the planet—and a model for the future of the left.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

What AI Can’t Do for Democracy

Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.

  • Daniel Berliner

Where Did the Labor Vote Go?

Until unions open the gates, they won’t deliver working-class voters to Democrats.

  • Janice Fine
  • Benjamin Schlesinger

How Famine Denial Works

Its past and present, from the Holodomor to Gaza.

  • Alex de Waal

Notes on Fighting Trumpism

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump

The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

  • Peter E. Gordon

From the Editors: AI Futures

Introducing our Fall 2024 issue.

  • Boston Review

The Parenting Panic

Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

  • Aaron Bady

Memory Lags

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, an association of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, is a small step to facing the truth so long denied.

  • Paolo Giordano

Event Recording: A Year of War

A discussion on paths to a political solution in Israel and Palestine. With Raja Shehadeh, Leila Farsakh, Alon-Lee Green, and Helena Cobban, moderated by Barnett R. Rubin.

The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

  • Wendy Brown
  • Francis Wade

Abortion’s Future

Activists, not elites, are leading the way forward in a world without Roe.

  • Judith Levine

The View from Besieged Beirut

In the wake of exploding pagers, universalism plunges into the abyss.

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Can Social Democracy Win Again?

The tangled legacy of the Swedish experiment.

  • Simon Torracinta

The Extortionist’s Doctrine

On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy.

  • Elaine Scarry
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