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

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 ...

I live in Beirut in an area called the Corniche that runs along the edge of the American University of Beirut. The word, which comes from the French corniche, meaning “ledge,” refers to a road on a ...

Donald Trump spent his first days back in the White House rolling out plans for mass deportations, an unbridled assault on civil rights, and the defunding of vital social programs. Meanwhile, the tech ...