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Trump’s Bid at a New Fusionism - Boston Review
5 hours ago · This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. Subscribe now to get a copy. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full force. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and incoming head of Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, treated the crowd to what sure seemed to be a ...
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Resisting Trump’s Immigration Machine It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point. The ...
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Resisting Trump’s Immigration Machine - Boston Review
4 days ago · During his first administration, Trump focused on the border and largely ignored interior enforcement. He successfully othered migrants by evoking imagery of invading marauders, aided by mainstream media that indelibly etched images and perceptions of desperate, criminal, and ragged migrants—obscuring their humanity and untethered to reality. Deportation numbers under Trump were comparable ...
Syria’s “Human Debris” - Boston Review
Dec 9, 2024 · The new government’s greatest challenge may be rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of barbaric state violence.
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Fall 2024 Generative AI tools, released by a handful of powerful tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it. Must their vision be our common destiny? Summer 2024 Reformers, organizers, and scholars debate the promise of a seemingly paradoxical proposal: in these hyperpartisan times, we need more political parties. Spring 2024 Should social movements work ...
Politics All the Way Down - Boston Review
Jan 6, 2025 · A new common sense has emerged regarding the perils of predictive algorithms. As the groundbreaking work of scholars like Safiya Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, and Ruha Benjamin has shown, big data tools—from crime predictors in policing to risk predictors in finance—increasingly ...
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Dec 18, 2024 · The essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most.