In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed to a conservative worldview, in the original sense of “conservative.” Instead of ...

This essay appears in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. In August 1936, after a failed coup against the Second Spanish Republic, Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces seized the city of ...

Amy King is author of I Want to Make You Safe and co-editor of the PEN Poetry Series. Andrew Ridker, Cathy Park Hong, Rae Armantrout, John Ashbery, Robert Pinsky, Charles Bernstein, Harmony Holiday, ...

The failure of formal checks and balances to significantly stymie Trump is painfully clear. It is also not unprecedented. As Lisa Miller illustrates, checks and balances have been routinely weaponized ...

As we struggle to answer his policies with progressive alternatives, the history of popular economic nationalism and its often-racist politics offers a powerful warning. The answer, though, isn’t a ...

Graciana del Castillo is the author of Rebuilding War-Torn States (Oxford, 2008) and of Guilty Party: The International Community in Afghanistan (forthcoming, 2014). She was Senior Research Scholar, ...

This note introduces our Spring 2025 issue. Read the Table of Contents here. Subscribe to get a copy. This issue is the first of Boston Review’s fiftieth anniversary year. You’ll find a forum on the ...

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In January, in an interview with CBS, Vice President J. D. Vance questioned the U.S. bishops of the Catholic Church about their use of federal funds to resettle migrants. “Are they worried about ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...