The time has come,” she wrote, “to think about queering the state.” A “record for antigay initiatives in the United States” was set in 1994, she observed—“part of a grander scheme to organize a ...

The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture. India and Israel are dusting off a time-worn strategy from the colonial archive. Israel already employs some eighteen thousand Indian migrant ...

Suzanne Gardinier is the author of several poetry collections. Gardinier’s poetry has been included in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1989) and Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets ...

laughing at how strong he still is. When the darkness is almost complete, he sits up & recites his last poem. When I lived, it begins, in Shuj’aiyya, in Gaza, when I took the train to Jerusalem & back ...

Ari Ne’eman is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard University. He co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in 2006 and served as its executive director from 2006 to 2016. From 2010 to ...

That’s what sociologist Alondra Nelson says of Boston Review.Independent and nonprofit, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. That’s why there ...

That’s what sociologist Alondra Nelson says of Boston Review.Independent and nonprofit, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. That’s why there ...

Insisting that the Palestine solidarity movement display “support” for Hamas inhibits the cultivation of the broad alliances ...

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Cerin Lindrensavage is counsel at Protect Democracy. She works on advocacy, research, and litigation related to preventing efforts to undermine elections and the democratic process.

Josh Lerner is Co-Executive Director of People Powered, a global hub for participatory democracy. He was previously co-founder and Co-Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project.