First group of migrants deported from the US under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador.
This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.
Palestinians living in the West Bank cannot feel safe anywhere.
Raja Shehadeh reporting from Ramallah on the sharp rise of settler violence and IDF complicity since the start of the war.
So many Haitians were placed in detention that even the Reagan administration acknowledged the situation “could create an appearance of ‘concentration camps’ filled largely by blacks.”
@policingblack.bsky.social on the ways that anti-Black policing have shaped today's deportation regimes.
NCLR teal background. The Federal Bureau of Prisons Is Running a Conversion Therapy Program. We must not let it stand
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is running a conversion therapy program. We are calling on everyone — not just those who are transgender, not just those who have loved ones in prison — to recognize what it represents and to oppose it.
“It seems that ICE’s primary objective was less to get bodies inside of prison cells and more to be seen and filmed—and for those videos to sow confidence or fear, depending on the watcher.”
Now online from our Winter 2026 issue, Liv Veazey on the agency’s spectacular shows of force:
"If Chuol dies like other Sudanese or South Sudanese, he is not dying because of some special reason that makes him Chuol. It’s not personal. He is just dead. And as he will die, just like other Sudanese, he is not eligible for DCAT. "
@joshuacraze.bsky.social on DHS's twisted logic
This is exceedingly bad news.
Israel’s incursions into southern Lebanon look less like a new doctrine than the revival of strategic vision associated with Ben-Gurion: preemption, cross-border force, and the reshaping of neighboring realities through military power @joelleabirached.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/mil...
ICE is STILL in Minnesota and STILL terrorizing communities. Reporters that say otherwise are either uninformed (which....) or lazy (which... ) or just repeating regime lies (which... is also extremely bad).
People are still missing, people are and will be traumatized, businesses demolished...
The high fantasy—that the strongest would defend the weakest—will strike many in our current political climate as too ridiculous, too impossible, but the fact it continues to have purchase on our collective imagination is a sign that not all is lost. —Junot Díaz www.bostonreview.net/articles/ris...
Photo portrait of Marielle Franco with a crowd in the background.
Brasilian feminist activist Marielle Franco's killers have just been convicted. From the archive, here's an article of hers we published at the time of her assassination.
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"There’s no need for pretense anymore: women, even the wife of the most powerful man in the world, are put on earth to be dominated." Devastating new piece by @judith-levine.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
A long read, but worth it. Sharp analysis by an economics professor of the threat that cryptocurrencies play, especially with Trump stumping for them. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Vivian Gornick thinks through our times with a Joachim Fest's memoir of Nazi Germany: "You’ll see how easily it can all happen—how easily we can all become good Germans." www.bostonreview.net/articles/tur...
“We—that is, Americans—live most of the time inside the cocoon of our small daily lives. Except for fire, flood, or outright war, the history-making world hardly ever impinges on most of us. For the most part, it is over there and we are over here.”
New from Vivian Gornick:
One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.
Alex Pretti's murder struck a nerve in the health care community, not just as a tragic loss of one of their own but as emblematic of the dangers facing workers and the moral basis of medicine itself. @joelleabirached.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/occ...
"The partition is simply another vehicle for annexation. This is no Marshall Plan for Palestinians, to say the least, but effectively a fire sale of their land and resources." An essay on how we got here from Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Must reading (as so much is) from the @bostonreview.bsky.social. @debchasman.bsky.social's interview with Robin D.G. Kelley on placing the ruthless brutality of ICE within the broader history of police violence. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
We don't really know how many children are in immigration jail. A few thousand. Many are being held long past the permitted time (20 days, which, ...). Some are babies.
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"The colonists, fewer of whom could vote, and all of whom were supposed to defer to the judgment of their representatives, nonetheless assumed a capacity to consent to law or withhold consent “after the fact.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/bar...
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
"The first ICE inspection report on Camp East Montana revealed a litany of abuses: makeshift construction, broken sinks and toilets, flooded cells, insufficient food." www.bostonreview.net/articles/pro...
We're $351 away from $15,000. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and shared. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
I did an interview with Robin Kelley about the murder if Renee Good — and what we know from history about strategies of resistance to armed agents of the state. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
I am already seeing reporters parrot DHS's version of the story, which is journalistic malpractice. Every story they spun about being under threat in Chicago was either seriously undermined by subsequently revealed evidence or outright proven false in court. Lying is ALWAYS their first move.
It's as if the spirits of Umberto Eco and Borges were summoned to confront the absurdity of LLMS. Absolutely brilliant.
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Throughout 2025, our writers delivered fearless analysis and creative resilience—refusing to compromise on fundamental values of justice and humanity in the face of brazen cruelty and democratic decline.
Revisit the writing readers turned to the most:
Like their South African counterparts, Palestinian activists have confronted the limits of a “segregationist apartheid” paradigm. @panashechigumadzi.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Extraordinary text by Honora Spicer, situating context & origins of horrors of contemporary migrant detention at Fort Bliss in El Paso ("Camp East Montana"), exemplifying systematic abuses of Trump 2.0's campaign of persecution & terror vs migrant communities
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