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Capitalism
May 6, 2020
Magazine
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Thomas Piketty’s Plan to Fix the Economy
His new book diagnoses a society obsessed with property rights.
April 2, 2020
J.C. Pan
Disinvestment Made Our Cities a Powder Keg in a Pandemic
New York doesn’t have a density problem. It has an austerity problem.
March 27, 2020
J.C. Pan
Two Weeks in an Oligarchy
A 14-day tour through government malice, open stupidity, and capitalist excess
March 25, 2020
Nick Martin
Give Me Capitalism or Give Me Death
The coronavirus crisis demands we put workers before profits, but lawmakers and wealthy elites have picked a side.
March 19, 2020
Nick Martin
Amazon Warehouse Workers Knew Someone Would Get Sick
Workers in Queens tried to warn their bosses about taking steps to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Then someone tested positive.
March 17, 2020
Nick Martin
Against Productivity in a Pandemic
Why are we being told—by bosses, by fitness apps, by ourselves—to optimize this “new” time to get things done?
March 6, 2020
Adam Kotsko
The Invisible Hand Wants You Dead
Rick Santelli has apologized for suggesting the populace should be infected with coronavirus, but his sadistic worldview is still a threat.
February 24, 2020
Magazine
George Scialabba
A World to Win
How millennial socialists make the case for a kinder politics
December 11, 2019
Ryu Spaeth
The Irishman
and
Parasite
: Two Paths for the Hustle
How two of this year’s most critically acclaimed movies critique capitalism
December 10, 2019
Nick Martin
Sweetgreen’s Soft Rebrand of the GoFundMe Crisis Model
The company’s white-collar employees can donate to a fund to help restaurant workers. Why not just pay higher salaries?
December 4, 2019
Magazine
Gabriel Winant
Life Under the Algorithm
How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class
October 29, 2019
Ingrid Burrington
How We Misremember the Internet’s Origins
50 years after the first ARPANET message, pop culture still views connectivity as disconnected from the political worldview that produced it.
June 12, 2019
Conor Lynch
The Left’s Failure to Envision a World Without Capitalism
Bernie Sanders' speech on democratic socialism underscored the limits of a growing movement's imagination.
May 21, 2019
Jon Greenway
Fans Are Ruining
Game of Thrones
—And Everything Else
How art and culture became captured by the logic of the consumer market
May 20, 2019
Magazine
Robert Westbrook
Socialism and the Democracy Deficit
The quest for radical equality in the American grain
May 7, 2019
Magazine
Samuel Moyn
The Price of Meat
America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.
May 6, 2019
Sarah Jaffe
Power Plays in the Anti-Semitic Blame Game
As capitalism starts to crumble, hate finds a familiar foothold.
April 26, 2019
Emily Atkin
Breaking Up Amazon Won’t Solve Its Climate Problem
The tech giant changed how Americans buy stuff. It will have to do so again—whether it wants to or not.
April 24, 2019
Alex Shephard
Warren’s Economic Evolution Gives Her Candidacy a Unique Edge
Once a Reagan Republican, the 2020 presidential contender talks about how capitalism's unjust underbelly made her change course.
April 15, 2019
Magazine
Tom Scocca
Tucker Carlson, Unbowed
He's petty, whiny, and contradictory. So why does he keep ruling the ratings night after night?
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