How Not to Abolish ICE
rssfeeds-admin Calls to abolish ICE are as old as the agency itself. When it was established...
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Sovereignty’s End and Beginning
The last time I was able to go home was ten years ago, when I...
Artificial Reason
On Tuesday, May 5, Boston Review convened a panel of three prominent writers—Kevin T. Baker,...
The War on Gaza Has Not Ended
In January, Trump’s Board of Peace was ratified to great fanfare and with the endorsement...
A Year of Magical Thinking
This essay appears in our Spring 2026 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. On Saturday...
The War on Iran: A Conversation
On Monday, April 6, Boston Review convened a panel of four distinguished scholars—Peyman Jafari, Ali...
Standing at the Gates of Hell
It is spring in Palestine, and Eid al-Fitr has just passed. It’s customary to buy...
Hunted and Banned
In January I watched Nasra Ahmed, a twenty-three-year-old U.S. citizen of Somali heritage, testify about...
The Catastrophe That Has Befallen All of Us
When the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran started on February 28, I didn’t hear from my...
Power Plays
Through videos circulating among Senegalese friends in WhatsApp chats, I watched the October 21 ICE...