This week marks half a decade since COVID-19 was declared a national emergency in the United States. Our reading list looks ...

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

Even by their own measures, almost all these small-scale measures were a resounding failure. No matter how much money donors ...

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Dylan Gottlieb is Assistant Professor of History at Bentley University.

In less than a month since returning to office, Trump has overseen a rapid assault on the federal government—initiating mass firings of federal employees and handing over unprecedented powers to Elon ...

Danielle Wiggins is Assistant Professor of History at Caltech.

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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 ...