Allen sought clarification. “That means that you will have to shoot half Spain?” To which Franco replied, “I repeat, at whatever cost.” ...

As we struggle to answer his policies with progressive alternatives, the history of popular economic nationalism and its often-racist politics offers a powerful warning. The answer, though, isn’t a ...

In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed to a conservative worldview, in the original sense of “conservative.” Instead of ...

As most of the federal government has declined to “check” the Trump administration over the past three months, a new imbalance has been established—one that favors the autocratic rule of a ...

This note introduces our Spring 2025 issue. Read the Table of Contents here. Subscribe to get a copy. This issue is the first of Boston Review’s fiftieth anniversary year. You’ll find a forum on the ...

Amy King is author of I Want to Make You Safe and co-editor of the PEN Poetry Series. Andrew Ridker, Cathy Park Hong, Rae Armantrout, John Ashbery, Robert Pinsky, Charles Bernstein, Harmony Holiday, ...

Graciana del Castillo is the author of Rebuilding War-Torn States (Oxford, 2008) and of Guilty Party: The International Community in Afghanistan (forthcoming, 2014). She was Senior Research Scholar, ...

Francis challenged the ethnonationalism of the U.S. Catholic right. With the election of Leo XIV, the battle lines are being retraced.

The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

In the late 1940s, the Cold War was heating up. In the United States anticommunism had reached a fever pitch at the same time that antiblack violence had forcefully re-emerged in the form of lynching ...