Law

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people. A new book considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.

As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.

Critics say human rights discourse blunts social transformation. It doesn’t have to.

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

The language of universal rights can be a powerful tool for advancing social justice.

Recent union drives point the way to more effective action against corporate power.