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Israel controls every aspect of people’s lives—what we eat, how much we eat, the quality of the water we drink, and the environmental conditions we live in. It decides who receives medical treatment and who dies from lack of it, who can travel and who is besieged, whose home is a tent and who lives under roof, where people can live and when they must evacuate. My first piece to @BostonReview: bostonreview.net/articles/the-w…

From my post mortem of Biden-era Dem-affiliated economic policy thinking published last year in @BostonReview: bostonreview.net/articles/a-rea…

"In short, we are ruled by a class of people who seem either to believe or presume that war, disease, and apocalyptic destruction are things that will only ever happen to poorer and browner people." bostonreview.net/articles/a-yea…

Recording of the panel I moderated for the Boston Review with four distinguished scholars—Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, and Naghmeh Sohrabi—to discuss the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran: bostonreview.net/articles/the-w…

Spoke to @stschrader1 about his new book, BLUE POWER. If you’re looking for a primer of how we ended up being governed by a group of feckless, violent strongmen, this is it. bostonreview.net/articles/how-t…

Searing diary entries from Iran. bostonreview.net/articles/the-c…

"The fact it seems inevitable that the response to a crisis will be further allocation of resources to and empowerment of police—this is Blue Power in action." @BostonReview interviews @stschrader1 on his new book: bostonreview.net/articles/how-t…

from the dairy of war-torn iran– 'the catastrophe that has befallen all of us.' bostonreview.net/articles/the-c…

Reupping because birthright citizenship is in the news and despite how SCOTUS rules, will be part of our political discourse for the foreseeable future. @BostonReview bostonreview.net/articles/rober…

“72 percent of Americans disapproved of Martin Luther King, Jr when he was shot in Memphis and 50 percent of black Americans disapproved of Martin when he was shot. We should never forget that.” bostonreview.net/articles/corne…

This essay by Andrew Holter in @BostonReview on Mary McCarthy’s reporting from Vietnam is extraordinary

Rarely post pieces I read everyday here but this is stunning. bostonreview.net/articles/the-n…

MUST LISTEN conversation with Asli Bali and Aziz Rana on their @BostonReview article on the emerging “Trump doctrine,” which they crucially trace back to Biden's Gaza policy. Today, this doctrine reverberates from the Middle East to the Caribbean. youtube.com/watch?v=jcgxL1…

And I want to add one more point that I made in the Boston Review a bit ago in response to Macedo and Lee that nobody talks about: some of the hardest sacrifices during the COVID pandemic were voluntary. bostonreview.net/forum/how-did-…

Black abolitionists saw their project as a rejection of the idea of Black transportability, insisting that freedom of movement is a human inheritance that belongs to all. Ending anti-Black policing necessitates the abolition of border regimes bostonreview.net/articles/hunte…

"The disorienting result is what might be called civil rights fascism..." Antisemitism’s Afterlives Its increasingly contradictory weaponization exposes how little it has ever had to do with the Jews. Benjamin Balthaser @BL_Balthaser bostonreview.net/articles/antis…

I have a new essay in @BostonReview, a transnational look at how slavery and the policing of Black mobilities across Atlantic empires shapes contemporary border regimes, and how this informs how we conceive of abolition bostonreview.net/articles/hunte…

This piece, which includes real arguments from a deportation hearing, is one of few that truly captures the surreal and nightmarish quality of immigration court. (by @joshua_craze) bostonreview.net/articles/poor-…

A deeply personal account of the war from within Tehran: bostonreview.net/articles/the-c…