Class & Inequality, Politics

“Marx’s Old Mole is Right Beneath the Surface”

Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Congress Could Legislate ‘Roe v. Wade’ and Still Fail Women

‘Roe v. Wade’ only guaranteed the right to patients’ privacy. A federal abortion law would need to go so much further.

Rachel Rebouché

Arts in Society

Celebrating Binyavanga Wainaina’s Fiction

Join us on April 14 for a one hour event on the rediscovery of “Binguni!,” his first story. Register now.

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Why Democracy Needs Privacy

The more someone knows about us, the more they can influence us. We can wield democratic power only if our privacy is protected.

Carissa Véliz

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

The Violent Embrace

The Atlanta shooter comes from a culture that connects Asian women to sex and violence. It has its origins in U.S. wars—particularly the Korean War—and is fueled by our continued military presence in Asia.

Jessie Kindig

Global Justice

How We Speak About the Failure of the PLO

A recent Foreign Affairs article gets history wrong and obscures a robust Palestinian discourse.

Helena Cobban

Arts in Society

Binguni!

Celebrated writer Binyavanga Wainaina’s first piece of fiction was thought to be lost. Recently rediscovered, it appears here twenty-five years after it originally debuted.

Binyavanga Wainaina, Achal Prabhala

Arts in Society

Angels of History

In the 1974 cult-classic teleplay Penda’s Fen, the past holds the key to escaping the catastrophic present. We too can learn from wilder pasts in our confrontations with capitalism today.

Andy Battle

Editors' Note

Black Voices in the Public Sphere: A Fellowship for Emerging Media Professionals

Announcing a fellowship to prepare and support the next generation of Black journalists, editors, and publishers.

Boston Review

Science & Nature

Medicine for the People

As more and more doctors awaken to the political determinants of health, the U.S. medical profession needs a deeper vision for the ethical meanings of care.

Eric Reinhart

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism. 

Erica X Eisen

Global Justice

Spectacle and Social Murder in Pandemic India

Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists.

Alf Gunvald Nilsen