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More Americans than ever are worried about the future of democracy. What is the best path to securing it? Lee Drutman leads a forum on expanding our two-party system with responses from Danielle Allen, Maurice Mitchell & Doran Schrantz, Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld, and others. Plus James Goodwin on Project 2025, David Austin Walsh on J.D. Vance, Elizabeth Catte on myths about poverty, and ...
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Oct 21, 2024 · Event Recording: A Year of War. A discussion on paths to a political solution in Israel and Palestine. With Raja Shehadeh, Leila Farsakh, Alon-Lee Green, and Helena Cobban, moderated by Barnett R. Rubin. October 22, 2024.
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The Parenting Panic. Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness. Memory Lags. Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, makes us see what we cannot: the consequences of our actions.
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Democratic Disenchantment - Boston Review
Democracy. August 19, 2024. In late 2018 a massive protest movement shook French society. Named for the yellow vests, or gilets jaunes, worn by demonstrators, the movement was initially sparked by opposition to a fuel tax hike, but its demands soon expanded. Among them were reforms to enable more direct popular input into political decisions.
Twenty of Our Most Loved Essays of 2022 - Boston Review
December 30, 2022. As 2022 comes to a close, we are looking back on an eventful year and counting down twenty selections of our most-loved essays we published over the last twelve months. 2022 has seen several new global challenges. In the weeks following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, our contributors provided essential context—examining ...
Our Top Pieces of 2021 - Boston Review
Dec 28, 2021 · Our Top Pieces of 2021. This year began with hope for vaccines, a new U.S. president, and generally brighter days. But the January 6 attack on the Capitol quickly tarnished our optimism, and nearly a year later we find ourselves facing a holiday wave of soaring COVID-19 infections (again) and Biden’s Build Back Better plan dead in the water.
Race Archives - Boston Review
Jan 18, 2024 · Neville Alexander’s Struggle Against Racial Capitalism. The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.
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Oct 23, 2024 · Daniela Gabor, Ndongo Samba Sylla. January 4, 2023. The New Workplace Surveillance. Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.
Announcing the 2021 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest Winners
Jan 13, 2022 · This year, contest judge Sonia Sanchez, winner of the Robert Frost Medal and the Gish Prize, selected two first-place winners for our contest: Adebe DeRango-Adem for her poem “Vox Genus / Provectus” and Simone Person for their poem “In Praise of the Sharp Blade.”. Adebe DeRango-Adem is a writer and former attendee of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa University ...