Global Justice

The App that Makes You a Terrorist

In the Turkish government’s rush to root out conspirators, the threshold for guilt is low.

Umar Farooq

Science & Nature

Democracy vs. the Algorithm

As it turns out, self-government and social connection are not the same thing.

Clara Hendrickson

Podcast, Politics

Strangers in Their Own Land

A conversation between Arlie Hochschild and Archon Fung.

Arlie Hochschild, Archon Fung

Law & Justice

On Taxes

An experiment in a quintessentially American form of protest.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Global Justice

The Border Is Not a Wall

It is an ever-widening surveillance zone that turns borderland citizens into guardians of the state.

Matthew Longo

Race

Baldwin’s Lonely Country

Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, a devastated James Baldwin made a final attempt to reconcile the generational divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.

Ed Pavlić

Race

MLK Now

Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

Brandon M. Terry

Law & Justice

The “Active Shooter” Is the State

Moving from liberal gun reform to a truly radical movement will require us to make the connection between interpersonal violence and state violence.

Judith Levine

Poetry

What Nature

These poems are urgent calls for rethinking our place on an imperiled planet.

Boston Review

Politics

The Fragile Legacy of Barack Obama

Obama refused to fight the political battles necessary to forge sustainable policies and a presidential legacy.

Elaine Kamarck

Print Issues

Fifty Years Since MLK

What can Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy do for activism today?

Gender & Sexuality, Race

Guns in the Family

A childhood steeped in guns shows that toxic masculinity and racism are at the heart of U.S. gun culture.

Walter Johnson

Class & Inequality

Who Is Watching Wall Street?

Stock buybacks are on the rise, and they are shortchanging workers and undermining our economy like never before.

Lenore Palladino

Poetry

National Poetry Month 2018

A poem a day, everyday, in honor of National Poetry Month.

Boston Review

Global Justice

Brazilian Democracy in Peril

Brazil has been in disarray since 2016’s presidential impeachment, but after the murder of the country’s most exciting progressive politician, Brazilians must decide whether to be outraged or resigned.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Marcelo K. Silva

POETRY

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