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Letter to the Editor: “Mexico’s Disappeared” If the Ayotzinapa case goes unpunished, there will never be a commitment from the state to resolve the broader issue.

The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.

The American left is now waking up to the fact that it slumbered while a historic opportunity to aid the poor passed it by. When Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity ...

David Waldstreicher David Waldstreicher is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His latest book is The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s ...

Reading Lists Our weekly Reading Lists compile editors’ selections from Boston Review ’s decades-long archive that speak to current affairs and the pressing political, cultural, and intellectual ...

Amid the brazen attacks of Trump’s first 100 days in office, courts have played a leading role in resistance to the authoritarian onslaught. The issue—the first in our 50th anniversary year—warns ...