Francis challenged the ethnonationalism of the U.S. Catholic right. With the election of Leo XIV, the battle lines are being ...

Far from safeguarding democracy, America’s system of government helped create this authoritarian moment—and only mass ...

Stephen H. Schneider (1945–2010) was Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Stanford University and Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC's working group on ...

This essay is featured in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. When news of the end of the Vietnam War arrived fifty years ago, immortalized in images of U.S. helicopters lifting off from ...

We’ll be celebrating with special issues and events, keeping faith with the democratic commitments that serve as our north star. The first issue of Boston Review appeared in June 1975. The magazine ...

Atiya Husain is an assistant professor of sociology and American studies at University of Richmond. She is currently working on a book on the FBI most wanted program, race, and terrorism. From drone ...

Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment. How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther ...

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James Gray Pope Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar at Rutgers University. Before joining Rutgers in 1986, he worked in a shipyard and represented labor unions at the Boston law firm of Segal, ...

We’ll be celebrating with special issues and events, keeping faith with the democratic commitments that serve as our north star.

Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...