Deborah Chasman
@debchasman.bsky.social
Editor at @bostonreview.bsky.social
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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.
January 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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.
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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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A Brief History of AI Psychosis
A short story.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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:
Revisit the writing readers turned to the most:
Our Most Loved Pieces of 2025 - Boston Review
Revisit the writing from this year that readers turned to the most.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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:
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...
The Land Question - Boston Review
It’s easier to imagine the end of apartheid than the end of settler colonialism.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like their South African counterparts, Palestinian activists have confronted the limits of a “segregationist apartheid” paradigm. @panashechigumadzi.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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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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December 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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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In the latest forum of @bostonreview.bsky.social I wrote about migration, social class and the causes of displacement around the world. You can read the essay, the responses and the response to the responses online here & also subscribe to Boston Review!
The Real Border Crisis - Boston Review
The problem isn't immigration. It's the failure of liberal democracy itself.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In the latest forum of @bostonreview.bsky.social I wrote about migration, social class and the causes of displacement around the world. You can read the essay, the responses and the response to the responses online here & also subscribe to Boston Review!
[email protected]: What happens If enough daycare centers and community hospitals close, if workers cannot access the care that allows them to show up and generate profit for others, if the most fundamental mechanisms of social reproduction collapse? www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
[email protected]: What happens If enough daycare centers and community hospitals close, if workers cannot access the care that allows them to show up and generate profit for others, if the most fundamental mechanisms of social reproduction collapse? www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
On the destruction not only of public schools in Gaza, but all of the public sector: With only private companies entering, "the markets are full of things that are not really necessary: ketchup, a thousand kinds of chocolate, fruit juices, even sodas." www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...
First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review
Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
On the destruction not only of public schools in Gaza, but all of the public sector: With only private companies entering, "the markets are full of things that are not really necessary: ketchup, a thousand kinds of chocolate, fruit juices, even sodas." www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...
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I wrote about care, capitalism and going on strike
“The wish that women’s care work be waged seems to have come true, albeit in funhouse-mirror form: legions of women now work to care for other peoples’ families, while the vast majority still take care of their own families for free.”
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework’s legacy:
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework’s legacy:
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I wrote about care, capitalism and going on strike
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“But I thought this was why Columbia had to pay the government a zillion dollars and accept restructuring,” said no one ever
So much for the Trump administration's alleged concern abt antisemitism. New Coast Guard (under DHS) policy now says swastikas and nooses are no longer considered hate symbols but just "potentially divisive." Coast Guard/DHS Officials refuse to respond.
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“But I thought this was why Columbia had to pay the government a zillion dollars and accept restructuring,” said no one ever
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this is more or less the whole thing imo
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
this is more or less the whole thing imo
The new schools in Gaza are private, and their scarcity drives up prices. Gaza journalist Rami Abu Jamous takes his son to the first day of kindergarten: www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...
First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review
Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The new schools in Gaza are private, and their scarcity drives up prices. Gaza journalist Rami Abu Jamous takes his son to the first day of kindergarten: www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...
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“Anti-wokeism is about giving ideological cover to longstanding priorities on the right—dismantling the welfare state and ramping up the carceral state, especially in the form of immigrant deportation and detention.”
Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:
Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:
Building a Political Home - Boston Review
Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”
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October 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“Anti-wokeism is about giving ideological cover to longstanding priorities on the right—dismantling the welfare state and ramping up the carceral state, especially in the form of immigrant deportation and detention.”
Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:
Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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The widely accepted narrative that Trump "chickened out" on Chicago is completely incorrect. ICE's incursions are getting worse here every day.
Protesters were tear gassed, shot with pepper spray bullets and some detained by ICE officers outside of a facility in suburban Broadview Friday morning. blockclubchi.co/3VslkAr
September 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The widely accepted narrative that Trump "chickened out" on Chicago is completely incorrect. ICE's incursions are getting worse here every day.
Raj Patael: Both Mamdani and MAHA distrusts the food system's additives, pesticides, and profiteering. But links MAHA draws between food and racial hygiene have roots in 1930s Germany. Mamdani connects healthly eating to dignity and collective provision. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mah...
MAHA v. Mamdani - Boston Review
Our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Raj Patael: Both Mamdani and MAHA distrusts the food system's additives, pesticides, and profiteering. But links MAHA draws between food and racial hygiene have roots in 1930s Germany. Mamdani connects healthly eating to dignity and collective provision. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mah...
Aaron Shakow: The campaign by one faction of the Jewish community over the past twenty-three months to systematically label political outrage as “antisemitism” is causing destruction at every level of civil society.
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Letter to the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism - Boston Review
Your approach is toxic and threatens core democratic values. You must change course or cease to exist.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Aaron Shakow: The campaign by one faction of the Jewish community over the past twenty-three months to systematically label political outrage as “antisemitism” is causing destruction at every level of civil society.
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THE best thing I’ve read regarding American Jews and Palestine, protesting from experience — of the heart and mind — the harmful effects of adopting of IHRA definition of antisemitism. Read the open letter:
Letter to the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism - Boston Review
Your approach is toxic and threatens core democratic values. You must change course or cease to exist.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
THE best thing I’ve read regarding American Jews and Palestine, protesting from experience — of the heart and mind — the harmful effects of adopting of IHRA definition of antisemitism. Read the open letter:
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A personal story, from a child's vantage point, about what it's like to live under never-ending state surveillance and persecution. Also to survive that through resistance and solidarity. From Joan Wallach Scott, who I was lucky to have as a colleague last year. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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September 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A personal story, from a child's vantage point, about what it's like to live under never-ending state surveillance and persecution. Also to survive that through resistance and solidarity. From Joan Wallach Scott, who I was lucky to have as a colleague last year. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
Whatever power truth-telling might have had against fascism has been radically diminished. There is ample scholarship proving that immigrants do not take jobs and that war in Gaza doesn’t make Jews safe. Robin DG Kelley and others on what resistance requires:
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
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September 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Whatever power truth-telling might have had against fascism has been radically diminished. There is ample scholarship proving that immigrants do not take jobs and that war in Gaza doesn’t make Jews safe. Robin DG Kelley and others on what resistance requires:
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Robin Kelley: The possibilities that Chomsky saw in the power of truth-telling are vastly diminished today. But there was always something misformulated about Chomsky’s question, however forcefully it exposed the moral bankruptcy of the “value-free” experts. www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Robin Kelley: The possibilities that Chomsky saw in the power of truth-telling are vastly diminished today. But there was always something misformulated about Chomsky’s question, however forcefully it exposed the moral bankruptcy of the “value-free” experts. www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
Vivian Gornick on Airless Spaces: The narrator thinks to herself she’s alone in the world, she’s got nothing and no one to go home to. That’s what’s waiting for each of us.We are all homeless, permanently homeless, irremediably homeless, homeless within ourselves www.bostonreview.net/articles/cre...
Creatures Apart - Boston Review
Shulamith Firestone’s portraits of madness reveal a condition afflicting us all.
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August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Vivian Gornick on Airless Spaces: The narrator thinks to herself she’s alone in the world, she’s got nothing and no one to go home to. That’s what’s waiting for each of us.We are all homeless, permanently homeless, irremediably homeless, homeless within ourselves www.bostonreview.net/articles/cre...
40 years ago--the first documented case I know that weaponized the charge of antisemitism to silence academics, made politicians and administrators complicit, and targeted people of color in particular. Mario Cuomo and Donald Blinken were both involved: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Silencing of Fred Dube - Boston Review
Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
40 years ago--the first documented case I know that weaponized the charge of antisemitism to silence academics, made politicians and administrators complicit, and targeted people of color in particular. Mario Cuomo and Donald Blinken were both involved: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...