Deborah Chasman
@debchasman.bsky.social
Editor at @bostonreview.bsky.social
A crucial piece on a crucial campaign @keeanga.bsky.social. "These are white folks, which is why I remind everybody, ‘Y’all, it is them at the top versus the rest of us. We can’t let them divide us, because that is how they have been winning.’ ”
How an Anti-Data-Center Activist Is Appealing to Rural White Voters in Tennessee
Republicans eliminated Tennessee’s only Black-majority district, so Justin J. Pearson took a campaign about economic inequality to rural white voters.
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“Other models of exit seek to free capital from the cumbersome demands of popular democracy. The Board of Peace is a form of escape, too—in this case, though, from a cumbersome international legal order.” Great piece by Noura Erakat / @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/exi...
Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
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I first read this in 2000 but it's still a great essay, with links to JC's work for the Boston Review.
Genre Trouble
Why can’t critics take John Crowley seriously?
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This story never changes: Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Silencing of Fred Dube
Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.
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"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...
Truth Without Reconciliation
Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?
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It is not just that white nationalism is ideological fodder for fascist forces. Fascism itself is constituted through the border. @harshawalia.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
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"The notion of the good life has not just been an ideal to strive for. It has also been a criterion for identifying lives that are not worthy." A widre-ranging essay from Jan Grue on disability and how we think about what makes life worth living.
Good Lives
What the denigration of disability tells us about human flourishing.
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"We do not live in a gerontocracy. We live in an oligarchy where a disproportionate number of the oligarchs happen to be old. That’s a different social problem, requiring a policy response focused on affordability and economic justice, rather than intergenerational equity."James Chappel on Sam Moyn
The Myth of Gerontocracy
Older people are not holding everyone else back. A more just society requires a different fight.
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"1970, the year in which Reichardt’s film takes place, is a hinge between the utopian visions of the 1960s and the nihilistic spirit to come, one which touts creativity and human ingenuity but keeps its eye squarely on the profit line." Jacob Rubin on Kelly Reichardt, art, and AI.
Art Thieves
Watching Kelly Reichardt’s films in the age of Anthropic.
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"Tech workers are not like artists for a great many reasons, the biggest one being that they don’t make any art.” Now online from our Spring issue, Jacob Rubin on Kelly Reichardt, theft, and the work of art in the age of AI:
Art Thieves
Watching Kelly Reichardt’s films in the age of Anthropic.
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the booing is an important tactic in the movement to BRING BACK SHAME @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social takes us from tactic to strategy: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together?
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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"On May 11, 2022, Shireen was covering an Israeli raid on homes in the Jenin refugee camp. Despite a valid press credentials and a well-adjusted protective vest and helmet, an Israeli sniper found the small vulnerable area of flesh between the two and shot my cousin in the head without warning."
For Shireen Abu Akleh
Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.
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1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵
ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 months
The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.
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Our new issue, FOREVER WARS, heads to press soon. Featuring a roundtable on Iran with @peymanjafari.bsky.social, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, @naghmehs.bsky.social, @alexshams.bsky.social. Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @harshawalia.bsky.social @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social +
First group of migrants deported from the US under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador. This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.
First deportees from US arrive in Congo capital, sources say
The first migrants deported from the United States under a recent bilateral agreement arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, according to one of the migrants, a lawyer in contact w...
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Palestinians living in the West Bank cannot feel safe anywhere. Raja Shehadeh reporting from Ramallah on the sharp rise of settler violence and IDF complicity since the start of the war.
Standing at the Gates of Hell
In the West Bank, the war has removed all restraints on settler violence against Palestinians.
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So many Haitians were placed in detention that even the Reagan administration acknowledged the situation “could create an appearance of ‘concentration camps’ filled largely by blacks.” @policingblack.bsky.social on the ways that anti-Black policing have shaped today's deportation regimes.
Hunted and Banned
Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons is running a conversion therapy program. We are calling on everyone — not just those who are transgender, not just those who have loved ones in prison — to recognize what it represents and to oppose it.
“It seems that ICE’s primary objective was less to get bodies inside of prison cells and more to be seen and filmed—and for those videos to sow confidence or fear, depending on the watcher.” Now online from our Winter 2026 issue, Liv Veazey on the agency’s spectacular shows of force:
Power Plays
ICE wants it both ways: to broadcast its might in spectacular shows of force, but to do so anonymously.
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"If Chuol dies like other Sudanese or South Sudanese, he is not dying because of some special reason that makes him Chuol. It’s not personal. He is just dead. And as he will die, just like other Sudanese, he is not eligible for DCAT. " @joshuacraze.bsky.social on DHS's twisted logic
Poor Historians
In the state’s twisted logic, being a victim of violence is reason for deportation.
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Israel’s incursions into southern Lebanon look less like a new doctrine than the revival of strategic vision associated with Ben-Gurion: preemption, cross-border force, and the reshaping of neighboring realities through military power @joelleabirached.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/mil...
Millenarian Fantasies
In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.
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ICE is STILL in Minnesota and STILL terrorizing communities. Reporters that say otherwise are either uninformed (which....) or lazy (which... ) or just repeating regime lies (which... is also extremely bad). People are still missing, people are and will be traumatized, businesses demolished...
The high fantasy—that the strongest would defend the weakest—will strike many in our current political climate as too ridiculous, too impossible, but the fact it continues to have purchase on our collective imagination is a sign that not all is lost. —Junot Díaz www.bostonreview.net/articles/ris...
Rise Up
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is set in a familiar realm of forever wars fought at the behest of cruel elites. Like all great fantasy, it shows us what might be otherwise.
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Brasilian feminist activist Marielle Franco's killers have just been convicted. From the archive, here's an article of hers we published at the time of her assassination. newleftreview.org/issues/ii110...
"There’s no need for pretense anymore: women, even the wife of the most powerful man in the world, are put on earth to be dominated." Devastating new piece by @judith-levine.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The First Lady’s New World
Melania is less about one woman than the disposability of them all in Trump 2.0.
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A long read, but worth it. Sharp analysis by an economics professor of the threat that cryptocurrencies play, especially with Trump stumping for them. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Crypto Chokehold
Trump’s return has vaulted pro-crypto interests into power. As they capture ever more Democrats, the political will to stop them is dwindling.
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Vivian Gornick thinks through our times with a Joachim Fest's memoir of Nazi Germany: "You’ll see how easily it can all happen—how easily we can all become good Germans." www.bostonreview.net/articles/tur...
Turning a Blind Eye
A memoir of daily accommodation to fascism.
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