Boston Review - October 2018
Evil Empire 59 social-welfare appropriations. After the issuance of NSC 68, debate in Congress over appropriations taught conser ...
Schrader publicized trials. Others, such as Claudia Jones, faced incarceration and then deportation. Reading NSC 68’s invocation ...
Evil Empire 61 of Public Safety’s advisors were experienced law enforcement experts, many of whom spent the immediate aftermath ...
Schrader techniques of repression could easily be reverse-engineered. Many of these aid-recipient countries—from Uruguay to the ...
Evil Empire 63 Political scientist Naomi Murakawa has shown, however, that by framing the problem as arbitrary and as growing ou ...
Schrader with a generation of U.S. police reformers who had watched corrupt political machines in U.S. cities be dismantled. Pol ...
Evil Empire 65 dedication to a cause that marked political radicalism, rehabilitative efforts were pointless. In 1969 two specia ...
Schrader in the end, U.S. police came to see extreme lawfulness—of which they were the sole arbiter—as the rejoinder to Soviet r ...
Evil Empire 67 Puerto Rico’s War on Its Poor Marisol LeBrón in february 1993, war was declared in Puerto Rico. In a special leg- ...
LeBrón root there and led to crime and decaying conditions. Naturally, these privatization efforts also held out the promise of ...
Evil Empire 69 minimum wage—U.S. capital left the archipelago in search of cheaper labor, better corporate incentives, and less ...
LeBrón of transparency. At its conclusion, the Puerto Rican Housing Authority had awarded contracts to 11 private management fir ...
Evil Empire 71 military technology and personnel, with the democratic principle of a necessary separation between military and c ...
LeBrón The conceptual and physical distancing of Puerto Rico from the United States allowed for the perception that these violat ...
Evil Empire 73 extremely low compared to market rents or typical mortgage payments, so homeownership offered no clear benefits f ...
LeBrón incarceration for those swept up in the raids, but also the threat of eviction for their family members, a kind of guilt ...
Evil Empire 75 Clark celebrated resident entrepreneurship, which was supported by private management companies and the Puerto Ri ...
LeBrón themselves felt in low-income communities of color across the United States long before Rosselló had ever uttered the phr ...
Evil Empire 77 Empire’s Racketeers Pankaj Mishra interviewed by Wajahat Ali pankaj mishra does not suffer fools. Born and raised ...
Mishra & Ali feel disenchanted by promises of the progress that was supposed to be delivered by liberal democracy. He traces ...
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