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Review of Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (Princeton University Press, 2024) The past few months have been historic ones for Puerto Ricans, both within Puerto Rico and in the diaspora. In late...

The dollar’s role as the world’s key currency is generally viewed as a boon for the US economy. President Donald Trump and some of his closest allies, chief among them Vice President J. D. Vance,...

Review of World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order by Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita, and Alexandra Gheciu (Cambridge University Press, 2024) The great strength of World...

Demographers debate exactly when it will happen, but there is a consensus now that in the second half of this century, the global population will start to decline. Of course, this is something that has...

In November, Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson traveled to the port city of Dakhla, on the West African coast, to launch his budget airline’s latest destination. On the runway, he posed for photos with Morocco’s tourist...

Last Thursday, housing activists hung from the façade of Madrid resident Mariano’s apartment, to prevent the eviction decreed by his aristocratic, multi-property-owning landlord. The attempted removal in the working-class neighborhood of Vallecas was just one...

Representatives of nine Global South countries convened in the Hague last Friday to launch a coalition that will apply collective pressure on Israel over its gross violations of international law. The founding members of the...

A new US administration is always a global-level event. The world anticipated George W. Bush’s arrival at the White House with fears that came to be confirmed, while Barack Obama’s election brought hopes that didn’t...

Last year, Heather Bryan was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer, for which she was prescribed Cotellic, a pill that slows the spread of cancer cells. The medication alleviated some of her most...

The Donald Trump administration’s early weeks marked a rapid escalation of authoritarian austerity — call it “austeritarianism,” a defining feature of our epoch. The preceding Biden administration also played its part, pouring billions into the...

Imagine this: You’re sitting in your living room when an earthquake hits. You snatch up your children and dash into the street. Seconds later, the building collapses. You’re alive but are now homeless. The kids’...

Last month, the world’s richest man offered the leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)— a former member of the Hayek Society, a financial consultant, and still a staunch neoliberal — a global stage...