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Race

Black Masculinity Under Racial Capitalism

A truly radical counterhegemony can only be realized by disassociating both blackness and manhood from capitalist registers of worth.

Jordanna Matlon

Forum

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.

Elizabeth Catte

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Overdosing in Appalachia

Harm reduction strategies have their roots in 1980s HIV activism, but they are starting to spread in rural America in response to the opioid crisis.

Lesly-Marie Buer

Race

Dying of Whiteness

State policies shaped by white supremacy increase mortality rates in much the same way as other manmade health risks, such as pollution.

Jonathan M. Metzl

Gender & Sexuality

What’s Wrong with Queer History?

In our search for a useful past, we need to be careful whom we name as the heroes of queer history.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Gender & Sexuality

Pleasure and Danger

Linda Hirshman’s new book "Reckoning" poses a false dichotomy between two kinds of feminism: those fighting for sexual liberation and those fighting for equality. We don’t have to give up one for the sake of the other.

Class & Inequality

New Rules, New Politics

How a revolution in economics has led to a new kind of politics.

Gender & Sexuality

Is Pete Buttigieg the Face of Stonewall?

The press has crowned Buttigieg the inheritor of Stonewall’s legacy, but this doesn’t square with what we know of Stonewall activists and the world they hoped to create.

Race

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

The expansion of banks such as Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and racial lines.

Peter James Hudson

War & Security

The Sanctions Game

Donald Trump's “maximum pressure” strategy is doomed to fail, especially as tensions rise between Iran and the United States.

Gender & Sexuality, Science & Nature

Who's Your Daddy?

The meaning of fatherhood remains elusive, even in the age of DNA-based paternity testing.

War & Security

Watching the End of the World

The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight—the same position it held in 1953, when the United States and USSR detonated their first hydrogen bombs. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?

A World of Electric Children

Announcing Boston Review’s new Arts in Society project

Looking for Solidarity

Sophie Maríñez

“More Queer Writing, Please”

Andrea Lawlor, Spencer Quong

Race in Black and White

Alexis L. Boylan

Writing the Twentieth Century

Aretha Franklin’s Soul

A Hidden Order of Reality

Walt Whitman’s Boys

Jeremy Lybarger

Politics

Democracy's Dilemma

Henry Farrell, Bruce Schneier

Introducing a Special Project from Boston Review

The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems

In Search of an Anti-Fascist Language

“Every Crucifixion Needs a Witness”

Toussaint Losier, William J. Barber II

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

Elizabeth Catte

Choosing Hope

Noam Chomsky, Scott Casleton

The Most Radical City on the Planet

Playing with Fire

READING LISTS

The Impending Nuclear Crisis

READING LIST

The doomsday clock is inching towards midnight. A reading list for a time of new nuclear threats.

Stonewall At Fifty

READING LIST

A gay liberation reading list.

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