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The new schools in Gaza are private, and their scarcity drives up prices. Gaza journalist Rami Abu Jamous takes his son to the first day of kindergarten:
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First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review
Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gazaâs public sector lies in ruins.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/first-day-of-school-in-south-rimal/
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âAnti-wokeism is about giving ideological cover to longstanding priorities on the rightâdismantling the welfare state and ramping up the carceral state, especially in the form of immigrant deportation and detention.â Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:
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Building a Political Home - Boston Review
Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a âgenerational war.â
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/building-a-political-home/
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As ICE agents terrorize Chicago neighborhoods and rough up my friends, patients, neighbors, and elected officials with total impunity, this essay I wrote for Boston Review last week on the myths surrounding "political violence" is as pressing as ever.
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What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review
Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: itâs all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/what-is-political-violence/
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Laura Bassett
about 2 months ago
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers canât find them and theyâve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html
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Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in itâremoves them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply.
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-can-we-live-together/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
The widely accepted narrative that Trump "chickened out" on Chicago is completely incorrect. ICE's incursions are getting worse here every day.
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Raj Patael: Both Mamdani and MAHA distrusts the food system's additives, pesticides, and profiteering. But links MAHA draws between food and racial hygiene have roots in 1930s Germany. Mamdani connects healthly eating to dignity and collective provision.
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MAHA v. Mamdani - Boston Review
Our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/maha-v-mamdani/
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Aaron Shakow: The campaign by one faction of the Jewish community over the past twenty-three months to systematically label political outrage as âantisemitismâ is causing destruction at every level of civil society.
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Letter to the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism - Boston Review
Your approach is toxic and threatens core democratic values. You must change course or cease to exist.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/letter-to-the-massachusetts-special-commission-on-combatting-antisemitism/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
THE best thing Iâve read regarding American Jews and Palestine, protesting from experience â of the heart and mind â the harmful effects of adopting of IHRA definition of antisemitism. Read the open letter:
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Letter to the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism - Boston Review
Your approach is toxic and threatens core democratic values. You must change course or cease to exist.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/letter-to-the-massachusetts-special-commission-on-combatting-antisemitism/
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A personal story, from a child's vantage point, about what it's like to live under never-ending state surveillance and persecution. Also to survive that through resistance and solidarity. From Joan Wallach Scott, who I was lucky to have as a colleague last year.
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A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-general-air-of-anxiety/
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Whatever power truth-telling might have had against fascism has been radically diminished. There is ample scholarship proving that immigrants do not take jobs and that war in Gaza doesnât make Jews safe. Robin DG Kelley and others on what resistance requires:
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-fascism-and-genocide/
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Robin Kelley: The possibilities that Chomsky saw in the power of truth-telling are vastly diminished today. But there was always something misformulated about Chomskyâs question, however forcefully it exposed the moral bankruptcy of the âvalue-freeâ experts.
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-fascism-and-genocide/
2 months ago
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Vivian Gornick on Airless Spaces: The narrator thinks to herself sheâs alone in the world, sheâs got nothing and no one to go home to. Thatâs whatâs waiting for each of us.We are all homeless, permanently homeless, irremediably homeless, homeless within ourselves
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Creatures Apart - Boston Review
Shulamith Firestoneâs portraits of madness reveal a condition afflicting us all.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/creatures-apart/
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40 years ago--the first documented case I know that weaponized the charge of antisemitism to silence academics, made politicians and administrators complicit, and targeted people of color in particular. Mario Cuomo and Donald Blinken were both involved:
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The Silencing of Fred Dube - Boston Review
Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-fred-dube-affair/
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The always relevant argument from Joe Carens on the limits of the state's right to deport immigrants: Social membership does not depend upon official permission or legal status.
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Who Gets the Right to Stay? - Boston Review
The moral right of states to apprehend and deport irregular migrants erodes with the passage of time.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/joseph-h-carens-who-gets-right-stay/
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Robin D. G. Kelley: Racial regimes are fictions, fragile and unstable. They can be disassembled, though that is easier said than done. In the meantime, we need to be prepared to fight for our collective lives.
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Births of a Nation - Boston Review
Surveying Trumpism with Cedric Robinson.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/robin-d-g-kelley-births-nation/
3 months ago
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BenB~â˘
3 months ago
This is a really rich synthesis across a few new texts and narratives and opens some essential big thinking on large scale, long form interventions and remedies in human-hydrosphere relations. Tuning in to the way water works its way through things, insistently.
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On murdered Palestinian journalists: "When al-Sharif began crying that heartbreaking day in front of al-Shifa Hospital, you could hear the people around him comforting and encouraging him: 'Continue! Continue! Youâre our voice.'"
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Israelâs War on Journalists - Boston Review
Palestinian reporter Anas al-Sharif was assassinated because he insisted on speaking the truth.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/israels-war-on-journalists/
3 months ago
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A spokesperson for the Israeli military relentlessly attacked the journalist Anas al-Sharif for "crocodile tears." Then they killed him and four other Al-Jazeera journalists.
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Israelâs War on Journalists - Boston Review
Palestinian reporter Anas al-Sharif was assassinated because he insisted on speaking the truth.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/israels-war-on-journalists/
3 months ago
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Robin Kelleyâs account of what really happened at UCLA last year: âThe administration probably did not anticipate an unholy alliance of neo-Nazis and Zionists working together.â
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ucl...
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UCLAâs Unholy Alliance - Boston Review
House Republicans accuse student protesters of vicious anti-Semitism, but it is administrators who are courting violence.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/uclas-unholy-alliance/
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Undamming the Klamath River: success came from both principled advocacy and commercial logic: it would have cost the dam operators more to re-license and upgrade the dams than they would have recouped in future years. Indigenous advocates recognized this.
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What Does It Take to Topple a Dam? - Boston Review
A new politics of rivers is emerging.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/what-does-it-take-to-topple-a-dam/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This is Robing D.G. Kelleyâs remarkable piece in
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of what actually happened at the encampment.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ucl...
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UCLAâs Unholy Alliance - Boston Review
House Republicans accuse student protesters of vicious anti-Semitism, but it is administrators who are courting violence.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/uclas-unholy-alliance/
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Of course Israelis know that there are people in Gaza with pre-existing medical conditions that make them especially vulnerable to shortage of food and medicineâall children born during the last two years in Gaza face greater risk for ill health. Alex de Waal:
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How to Hide a Famine - Boston Review
Israelâs deliberate campaign to obfuscate the hunger crisis in Gaza.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-hide-a-famine/
4 months ago
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"Lula gave ordinary people, who see themselves in him, permission to be and to want without apology. That enraged the countryâs elites, and it might be the most threatening thing about him."
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Becoming Lula - Boston Review
How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the planetâand a model for the future of the left.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/lulas-triumph/
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By underwriting Israelâs genocidal onslaught so flagrantly, Western governments have hastened the final discrediting of the legal order the West itself developed after World War II.
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Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaza-and-the-end-of-history/
4 months ago
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"When Republicans are in power, Democrats express outrage at immigration enforcement policies. When Democrats are in power, those same policies often remain in place or even expand." Thank you
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The Immigration Enforcement Ratchet: A 15-Year Perspective on Policy Continuity
Immigration enforcement systems persist across administrations through institutional momentum, creating a "ratchet effect" that transcends partisan politics and electoral cycles.
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-immigration-enforcement-ratchet
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More from Alex de Waal on the history and methods of famine denialism:
www.bostonreview.net/articles/eng...
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âWhat if another country, which had consistently condemned our form of government, demanded that the U.S. give up its nuclear science and technology base, its Air Force, and its allies? In short, the U.S. is demanding that Iran concede its sovereignty and its ability to defend that sovereignty.â
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Courting War - Boston Review
Despite claims to the contrary, the Trump administration wants regime change in Iran and is risking a full-scale war in order to get it.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/barry-posen-courting-war/
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Deeply reported piece on what's happening in Kashmir: New laws permitting Indian citizens to vote, apply for jobs, and buy land in Kashmir can only be seen as a step toward turning it into a Hindu-majority state.
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7 months ago
Our next issue is coming soon. Featuring Lisa L. Miller on the false promise of checks and balances to stop Trumpâs authoritarian assault, with
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"Merseyside doctors began to talk about 'shit life syndrome,' a diagnosis that proved deadly." Loved working on this essay with
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www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...
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Lost Liverpool - Boston Review
The city was at the vanguard of working-class obsolescence. How should we understand its fate?
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/lost-liverpool/
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8 months ago
An unusually historically grounded overview not just of Mr. Khalilâs situation but the ground he will be fighting upon, and some of how we got here. Lotsa links. Clear and readable. Highly recommended.
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does very good work Free to read
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OlĂşfáşšĚmi O. TĂĄĂwò
8 months ago
even if you don't like the idea of the state on principle you will really not like what's left of it after the right hacks at it
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"Kirsch expects you to follow him, through sleight of hand, into the Manichaean world where Israeli violence is always virtuous and necessary, while Palestinian violence is always by definition sheer evil."
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A letter from me: Will you help us cover this crisis?
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Will you help us cover this crisis? - Boston Review
Our contributors have seen this moment coming. But we need your support to continue covering it.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/will-you-help-us-cover-this-crisis/
9 months ago
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StoptheButterflyRevolution
10 months ago
Don't read the New York Times or The Washington Post. And, forget The Atlantic, too. Forget cable news. Do better. Read In These Times, watch Democracy Now, read Drop Site News, The Intercept, Boston Review, Jacobin. There are other places to get news. Donate to them.
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10 months ago
Our next issue, TRUMPâS RETURN, is coming soonâfeaturing
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on Trumpâs coalition, Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang, Robin Kelley on fighting back, and much more. Subscribe nowâuse code RETURN20 for 20% offâto be on the first shipment:
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The consumption of ideological media has been a core part of conservative identity for two generations. Some have attributed its influence to a âshadow networkâ of donors and activists, but it is better understood as a political movementâand can be countered the same way.
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It's No Secret Why Republicans Win - Boston Review
The rightâs success is not a shadowy conspiracy; it has been achieved out in the open, largely through ordinary politics. Much of it can be countered the same way.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/nicole-hemmer-why-republicans-win/
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'What answer is left but a fight to the finish? A plan of campaign, with spectacle the enemy. Not derision but tactics." Must read from T.J. Clark:
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T.J. Clark ¡ A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. Heâs on the screen in our hands. We...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/t.j.-clark/a-brief-guide-to-trump-and-the-spectacle
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