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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 ...

Danielle Wiggins is Assistant Professor of History at Caltech.

Dylan Gottlieb is Assistant Professor of History at Bentley University.

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