Democratic socialist since 1954.
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The suburban habit of neighbors actively surveilling one another, justified as a means of defending property values and “community character,” might be a useful tool for documenting grievances, but not for mediating them.
“The suburbs dream of violence,” wrote British science fiction author J.G. Ballard in 2006, “sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.”
The liberal international order is a zombie order, kept upright only by the momentum of its own decaying institutions.
Adam Silver said one of his foremost responsibilities “is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league.” In reality, the only thing the NBA has protected is its bottom line.
In the United States today, the COVID-19 pandemic and the crises in its wake have done untold damage to our national sense of neighborliness. What are we to make of all this suburban madness?
Less than two years after winning one of the biggest majorities in British political history, the Labour Party is on the cusp of defenestrating its leader, Keir Starmer, and installing the United Kingdom’s seventh prime minister within a decade.
“Neighbors” on HBO Max purports to uncover the underlying source of Americans' unwillingness to compromise, writes Matthew Vickers. But does the show have a point? What are we to make of all this suburban madness?
Join Boston Review and Dissent for an event with Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, and David Waldstreicher on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Brilliant and could aptly describe the problems of all centre and right wing governments
As the decay of public institutions and the rule of social media algorithms deepen our collective alienation, the country’s political divides are often on display in the most vexed region of American life: the suburbs.
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The “middle powers” can band together to chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.
Less than two years after winning one of the biggest majorities in British political history, the Labour Party is on the cusp of defenestrating its leader, Keir Starmer, and installing the United Kingdom’s seventh prime minister within a decade.
Starmer’s leadership has been dedicated not just to avoiding but to actively suppressing any attempt to take the United Kingdom’s problems seriously.
Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets?
