We should not at all underestimate the pressure and the constraints, the harassments and surveillance which go on and have ...

Allen sought clarification. “That means that you will have to shoot half Spain?” To which Franco replied, “I repeat, at whatever cost.” ...

As most of the federal government has declined to “check” the Trump administration over the past three months, a new imbalance has been established—one that favors the autocratic rule of a ...

This note introduces our Spring 2025 issue. Read the Table of Contents here. Subscribe to get a copy. This issue is the first of Boston Review’s fiftieth anniversary year. You’ll find a forum on the ...

The hallowed story Americans like to tell about our constitutional order gets it precisely backward—on that, Lisa Miller is utterly convincing. Rather than empowering democracy, our system obstructs ...

The Democratic Party’s decision to double down on checks and balances as the best response to the Trump administration is only the latest reflection of its paucity of political vision. Both Joe Biden ...

The system is not functioning well—Lisa Miller is right about that. She insightfully dissects the limits of our traditional understanding of checks and balances, showing why a major national movement ...

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Lisa Miller clearly comes to condemn Trump, not to praise him. Yet her polemic captures a common justification of his administration’s violent, cruel, and authoritarian ethnonationalism. This striking ...

I am grateful for these provocative and engaging responses. Start with the elephant in the room: Is this the right moment to critique our system of checks and balances, after a near-majority of voters ...