Even by their own measures, almost all these small-scale measures were a resounding failure. No matter how much money donors ...

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This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. Subscribe to get a copy. The year 2014 was a heady moment in the economic policy world. That spring, French ...

As more and more doctors awaken to the political determinants of health, the U.S. medical profession needs a deeper vision for the ethical meanings of care.

Boston Review’s Arts in Society section publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and criticism. It focuses on how the arts loosen the hold of convention, bear witness to injustice, provoke new ...

When Hamas-led gunmen massacred nearly 1,200 people on October 7, several fundamental conceptions, together with the Gaza fence, collapsed. Among them were the reliability of Israel’s highly regarded ...

This collection gathers poems, from the eve of the twenty-first century to the month following Trump’s election, to mark a moment of political rupture, summoning the languages of resistance and memory ...

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