As we struggle to answer his policies with progressive alternatives, the history of popular economic nationalism and its ...

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 ...

Lisa L. Miller is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Her next book, with the University of Chicago Press, is The Myth of Checks and Balances and the American Democratic Deficit.

Michael Javen Fortner is assistant professor and academic director of Urban Studies at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at the City University of New York. He is the author ...

Marie E. Berry is Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She codirects the Women’s Rights After War Project. She is author of War, Women, ...

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