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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.
Notes on Fighting Trumpism - Boston Review
22 hours ago · The message has been clear since 2016, when Trump, despite losing the popular vote to Hilary Clinton, still won the electoral college with nearly sixty-three million votes, just three million fewer than what Obama got in 2012. Trump lost in 2020, but received seventy-four million votes, the second-largest total in U.S. history.
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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.
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Reclaiming Freedom Freedom has a dual legacy. On the one hand, it evokes struggles associated with the left, from abolition and anticolonialism to women’s and queer liberation. On the other hand, it has long been a watchword of the right, from neoliberals to white nationalists. This issue reclaims freedom as a fundamental political value ...
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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Jul 31, 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.
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Mar 13, 2024 · The Frozen Politics of Social Security. The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.