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, wittingly or not, echoing a long line of conservative critics. Over the last ...

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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 ...

Dylan Gottlieb is Assistant Professor of History at Bentley University.

Danielle Wiggins is Assistant Professor of History at Caltech.

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 ...

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 ...