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: www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...

“Anti-wokeism is about giving ideological cover to longstanding priorities on the right—dismantling the welfare state and ramping up the carceral state, especially in the form of immigrant deportation and detention.” Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:

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. www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

The widely accepted narrative that Trump "chickened out" on Chicago is completely incorrect. ICE's incursions are getting worse here every day.

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. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mah...

Aaron Shakow: The campaign by one faction of the Jewish community over the past twenty-three months to systematically label political outrage as “antisemitism” is causing destruction at every level of civil society. www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...

THE best thing I’ve read regarding American Jews and Palestine, protesting from experience — of the heart and mind — the harmful effects of adopting of IHRA definition of antisemitism. Read the open letter:

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. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

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 doesn’t make Jews safe. Robin DG Kelley and others on what resistance requires: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

Robin Kelley: The possibilities that Chomsky saw in the power of truth-telling are vastly diminished today. But there was always something misformulated about Chomsky’s question, however forcefully it exposed the moral bankruptcy of the “value-free” experts. www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

Vivian Gornick on Airless Spaces: The narrator thinks to herself she’s alone in the world, she’s got nothing and no one to go home to. That’s what’s waiting for each of us.We are all homeless, permanently homeless, irremediably homeless, homeless within ourselves www.bostonreview.net/articles/cre...

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: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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. www.bostonreview.net/articles/jos...

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. www.bostonreview.net/articles/rob...

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.

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! You’re our voice.'" www.bostonreview.net/articles/isr...

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. www.bostonreview.net/articles/isr...

Robin Kelley’s account of what really happened at UCLA last year: “The administration probably did not anticipate an unholy alliance of neo-Nazis and Zionists working together.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/ucl...

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. www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

This is Robing D.G. Kelley’s remarkable piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social of what actually happened at the encampment. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ucl...

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 medicine—all children born during the last two years in Gaza face greater risk for ill health. Alex de Waal: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

"Lula gave ordinary people, who see themselves in him, permission to be and to want without apology. That enraged the country’s elites, and it might be the most threatening thing about him." www.bostonreview.net/articles/lul...

By underwriting Israel’s genocidal onslaught so flagrantly, Western governments have hastened the final discrediting of the legal order the West itself developed after World War II. @joelleabirached.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...

"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 @austinkocher.com austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-immigr...

More from Alex de Waal on the history and methods of famine denialism: www.bostonreview.net/articles/eng...

“What 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.”

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.

Our next issue is coming soon. Featuring Lisa L. Miller on the false promise of checks and balances to stop Trump’s authoritarian assault, with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social bostonreview.net/memberships

"Merseyside doctors began to talk about 'shit life syndrome,' a diagnosis that proved deadly." Loved working on this essay with @emilybaughan.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...

An unusually historically grounded overview not just of Mr. Khalil’s situation but the ground he will be fighting upon, and some of how we got here. Lotsa links. Clear and readable. Highly recommended. #DebbieNathan does very good work Free to read

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 www.bostonreview.net/product/what...

"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." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

A letter from me: Will you help us cover this crisis? www.bostonreview.net/articles/wil...

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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 “shadow network” of donors and activists, but it is better understood as a political movement—and can be countered the same way. @pastpunditry.bsky.social

'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: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...