A Political and Literary Forum
Indifference toward the most vulnerable has driven the death toll of COVID-19, just as it did during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Against this backdrop, even small acts of kindness can make a difference.
Michael McColly
A new book shows how Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces—alongside state and local entities—taking children from families deemed inimical to the idealized American family form.
Paul M. Renfro
An alternative father’s day reading list.
Rosie Gillies, Boston Review
Neoliberalism rests on the myth that “good” families can provide for their own without public support. COVID-19 may finally change all that.
Julie Kohler
Accountability is important. But tests that tie school funding to student performance only make things worse.
Lelac Almagor
Two recent books about Mormon women highlight the success of the church in redefining itself as a modern liberal religion. But to become that, the Latter-day Saints dramatically reworked both their theology and history.
Peter Coviello
Balancing work-life pressures is often considered the holy grail, but men can still opt out of these policies. To move the needle on gender inequality, the state needs to take more coercive action.
Gina Schouten
Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. This matters not only because white and black students experience very different educational outcomes, but also because school is where children form many of their ideas about race and privilege.
Erik Loomis
Jordan Peele's ‘Us’ depicts the terrors faced by black mothers in a way that owes as much to Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ as it does to classic Hollywood horror.
Tao Leigh Goffe
The meaning of fatherhood remains elusive, even in the age of DNA-based paternity testing.
Nara Milanich
“I was a teenager back then, pregnant and desperate. Too terrified to make the midnight trip to the back alley.”
Matt Lord, Boston Review
Education’s most important job is to teach students to take an active role in their democracy, starting in their own communities.
Albert W. Dzur
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