When Elon Musk called Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time” on Joe Rogan’s podcast on February 28, he was, ...

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This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. Subscribe to get a copy. The year 2014 was a heady moment in the economic policy world. That spring, French ...

The fight against global poverty was once all the rage. From the 1950s to the 1980s, when the Global South’s exploding populations desperately searched for jobs and food, everybody seemed to look for ...

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Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...

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Boston Review’s Arts in Society section publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and criticism. It focuses on how the arts loosen the hold of convention, bear witness to injustice, provoke new ...

Dana Houle served as Chief of Staff for former U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes and campaign manager for Hodes and for U.S. Rep. Jim Himes. He writes at The Rooted Cosmopolitan. Representative Cooper has many ...

When Hamas-led gunmen massacred nearly 1,200 people on October 7, several fundamental conceptions, together with the Gaza fence, collapsed. Among them were the reliability of Israel’s highly regarded ...

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