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A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. NEWSLETTER: bit.ly/2rkBvCx MEMBERSHIP: bit.ly/2F1gdys
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The US #ForeignPolicy elite thrive professionally even after they enable outsized blunders—they 'fail upwards.' The individuals who campaigned tirelessly for the #Iraq war are now at top think tanks, on television, and in the op-ed pages of leading papers. bostonreview.net/war-security/r…
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"Contemporary China may trumpet Marxism as its unifying ideology, but only as window dressing."
Xi Jinping was born #OnThisDay in 1953. We went searching for Mao in his China: bostonreview.net/politics/roder…
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"The Port Huron Statement’s core message is timeless but not dogmatic: we all need participatory democracy."
Released #OnThisDay in 1962, we reassess the document that sparked an era of activism. Feat. @studentactivism @williamayers @dsallentess and more: bostonreview.net/forum/port-hur…
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Our obsession with #data means that we incorrectly frame complex social and political issues as technical puzzles... and solving these puzzles draws our focus from the real challenges: bostonreview.net/science-nature…
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Neuroplasticity 🧠 was once a niche theoretical concept beloved by liberal policy makers and politicians in order to make a case that more monies be directed to impoverished children.
But now its mainstream—and the right are coopting it: bostonreview.net/race/michael-e…
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What priorities were after the financial crash: saving the elite
What the priorities should have been: helping the real economy grow.
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Want to build worker power? 💪 Then we've got to throw away everything we know about traditional organizing: bostonreview.net/class-inequali…
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We know the woman’s innocent because of her white bathing suit.
The science men look away from her as she passes.
None notices the leaves growing from her back.
The plant inside the glass flowers.
#poem #poetry #poet bostonreview.net/poetry/devon-m…
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"Black women were the most ready to struggle for their rights. They were the ones who were out in the streets saying: Welfare is not charity. Every woman is a working woman." #Feminism bostonreview.net/print-issues-g…
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The house blocks autumn-slant sun—
only a strip of light
slices through to gild leaves, a sapling, the struggling hedge
rose-bronze or some honeyed shade of pink wine.
Soon, it fades. bostonreview.net/poetry/devon-m… #poems #Poetry #poemoftheday
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The #OpioidCrisis is often painted as something that only affects whites. But this makes the suffering and deaths of nonwhite #opioid users invisible. store.bostonreview.net/backissues/rac… pic.twitter.com/r5sR23oBpz
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"The Bell Curve" may be a controversial read, but it's time for liberals to quit arguing about biology and turn attention back to massive structural economic and political inequities instead: bostonreview.net/race/michael-e… pic.twitter.com/rIDGd3FkEj
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It is fiction! It’s an essay about a short story writer (the guy who wrote Arrival) and his new collection 📚
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Marxists often call Hannah Arendt a reactionary, conservative, or elitist. But the relationship between Arendt and Marxism is not quite so simple: bostonreview.net/politics-philo…
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Not itself a color, pink. The watering-down of
crimson, itself the color of fresh-drawn arterial blood—
a tint—so signifying strength—that arterial wash and feeding.
Too strong for girls, they said, therefore worn by boys bostonreview.net/poetry/devon-m… #poems #poetry
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"Raising a digital child to autonomous individuality will involve living with the paradoxes of loving (or exploiting) a conscious being produced by engineering, but one who, like Pinocchio, can aspire to full—digital—human status." bostonreview.net/literature-cul…
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Remember ‘Dr. Strangelove’ And ‘The Day After’? Why Don’t They Make Movies Or TV About Nuclear War Anymore?:
After all, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock is still set at two minutes to midnight, most of the Cold War-era nukes (or th… bit.ly/2MUdBLd
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Gay Liberation Behind the Iron Curtain: The unexpected LGBT golden age in #communist East Germany. bostonreview.net/gender-sexuali… #Pride #PrideMonth2019
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"You have to be consistent and critical across the board. You bring that up today and they say, oh you’re just #Obama-hating still. No, I’m telling the truth." bostonreview.net/race/cornel-we…
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The house blocks autumn-slant sun—
only a strip of light
slices through to gild leaves, a sapling, the struggling hedge
rose-bronze or some honeyed shade of pink wine.
#poem #poetry #poemoftheday bostonreview.net/poetry/devon-m…
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