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Fiction

Last Day

On the day the Earth is supposed to end, Karen is entrusted to open the YMCA. An excerpt from New York Times bestseller Ruta’s new novel.

Arts & Culture

Looking for Solidarity

The work of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud recalls a time when the two sides of the Caribbean island were united by their visions for an equal society.

Sophie Maríñez

Forum

Democracy's Dilemma

Democracies rely on the free exchange of ideas and information, but that freedom can also be weaponized to erode democratic debate. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—the free flow of digital information?

Henry Farrell, Bruce Schneier

Class & Inequality

Apple's Newest Store and the Perverse Logic of Philanthro-Capitalism

The Apple Carnegie Library embodies recent developments in philanthropy that should trouble us: the uncritical valorization of philanthro-capitalism and the privatization of public goods and public spaces.

Benjamin Soskis

Gender & Sexuality

Toward a Democratic Hedonism

Debate over Title IX affirmative consent standards has assumed that consent is the best basis for a feminist sexual politics. But what if it isn’t?

Joseph J. Fischel

Politics

In Search of an Anti-Fascist Language

As Germans learned after World War II, combatting fascist language is harder than just deleting offending terms. Can we find a creative solution that serves today’s needs?

Politics

Introducing a Special Project from Boston Review

With democracy now subject to sharp challenges, we are rededicating ourselves to it with a project that aims to pave the way for policymakers and citizens to rethink conventional options.

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Solidarity in Silicon Valley

Tech companies have seen waves of worker protest, but they are still far from democratic. The remedy is to build and exert real forms of worker power inside the workplace.

Politics

Playing with Fire

In their new book, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson describe fighting the fire of the 2008 financial crisis. But while they did rebuild the burnt towers of Wall Street, they left Main Street to dig out from the rubble.

Law & Justice

The Right to Boycott

Since 2014 twenty-seven states have adopted laws that aim to discourage boycotts of Israel. At stake is our First Amendment right to protest state policies.

Radhika Sainath

Race

The Mismeasure of Minds

Twenty-five years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die. Reckoning with its legacy may help redirect the conversation in urgently needed ways.

Michael E. Staub

Forum

How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

The opioid crisis and the War on Drugs are intertwined in the mutually reinforcing framework of racial capitalism.

Science & Nature

Programming My Child

Nature Defends Itself

Dayton Martindale

“Could You Do Any Better Than We Did?”

William T. Vollmann, Ted Hamilton

The Sins of “Smart” Cities

Climate Gut Check

No Collision

Defensible Space

Democracy vs. the Algorithm

Clara Hendrickson

The Defeat of Reason

Education & Opportunity

Scholars in Exile

The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality

Richard V. Reeves

A Brown v. Board for Higher Ed

Marshall Steinbaum

In the Name of Victims

Kristin Bumiller

The Erotics of Mentorship

Marta Figlerowicz, Ayesha Ramachandran

Teaching Citizenship

The Slow and Fast Assault on Public Education

Henry A. Giroux

We Don’t Need No Education?

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Teachers with Guns

READING LISTS

Trans Mothers. Marxist Mothers. Robot Mothers.

READING LIST

—and those who wish they could be mothers. A reading list for Mother’s Day.

What Marx Got Wrong About Capitalism

READING LIST

A Racial Capitalism Reading List

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