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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, ...

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 ...

Danielle Wiggins is Assistant Professor of History at Caltech.

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 ...

Toussaint Nothias is Associate Director of Research at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for African Studies. As Big Tech's data and profit extraction extends ...

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 ...

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 ...