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800,000 Reasons Democrats Should Worry

It wasn’t just about turnout. Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts ought to be a wakeup call for Democrats, who saw a real erosion in support.

Stephen Ansolabehere and
Charles Stewart III

The Rules

A forum on Government’s proper role in the market with Eliot Spitzer. Responses from Dean Baker; Robert Johnson; and Sarah Binder, Andrew Gelman, and John Sides. Eliot Spitzer responds.

Debating What Darwin Got Wrong

A Web-only exchange between Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Ned Block and Philip Kitcher, based on their review of the controversial book.

essays

Are You Being Served?

How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom
Richard M. Stallman—Web only

The Obligation to Prosecute

Why we must prosecute the Bush administration officials who sanctioned torture.
Elaine Scarry—Web only

Obama’s Chicago Tactics

Why top-down governing isn’t working in Washington.
Michael Gecan—Web only

Nothing To Fear

Why Muslim immigration in Europe is no “clash of civilizations.”
John R. Bowen

All Bark, No Bite

Have Europe’s social democrats outlived their ideological usefulness?
Clay Risen

Counterinsurgency’s Comeback

Can a colonialist strategy be reinvented?
Nasser Hussain

Sidney Mintz and Colin Dayan
on Haitian history and the current crisis—Web only

The Big Bank Theory

How government helps financial giants get richer
Dean Baker

State of the Nation: the State of Boston

A mayoral election special
Stephen Ansolabehere

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul
Vivian Gornick

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Ryan Thoreson

Edit This Page

Wikipedia: what makes it work—and can it last?
Evgeny Morozov
Listen to Morozov on NPR’s Here & Now

Statement of Support for Iranian Universities (PDF)

More Essays

fiction

Seven Little Stories About Sex—story

Eric Freeze

Wednesday Nights—memoir

Memories of “Tickle or Torture”
Vestal McIntyre

Everything is Breakable with a Big Enough Stone—story

Taryn Bowe

Fine By Me

Geoff Dyer’s unlikely terms of engagement
James Wallenstein

Last Wishes

Nabokov’s last request was the destruction, by fire, of the notes for the newly-published The Original of Laura.
Leland de la Durantaye

Hear the author on NPR’s On Point.

More Fiction & Fiction Essays

Sites of interest: Personal Loans

News

Congratulations to the winners of the Unterberg Poetry Center’s 2010 “Discovery” / Boston Review contest:
Chelsea Jennings, Brandon Kreitler, Tanya Olson, and Camille Rankine (no relation to judge Claudia Rankine).
The winners will read their work May 10 at the 92nd St. Y in New York. The winning poems will appear online and in our May/June issue.

Tom Barry’s A Death in Texas is nominated in the Public Interest category of the 2010 National Magazine Awards.

Contributor Rae Armantrout has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for her collection Versed. Congratulations Rae!

BR contributor Peter A. Diamond has been tapped by the Obama administration to sit on the Federal Reserve Board, pending congressional confirmation.

2004: A Mostly Irish Farce
For St. Patrick’s Day, Roger Boylan presents his tribute to Ireland and its masters of the ridiculous.

1998: Is Equality Passé?

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