Far from safeguarding democracy, America’s system of government helped create this authoritarian moment—and only mass ...

Miller warns that liberal hopes in such checks and balances are misplaced. Far from a safeguard of democracy, she argues, ...

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 ...

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

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We’ll be celebrating with special issues and events, keeping faith with the democratic commitments that serve as our north star. The first issue of Boston Review appeared in June 1975. The magazine ...