Thomas Frank on How the Feckless Democrats Trashed the American Middle Class
How Democrats abandoned populist economic ideas and whether there is a future for progressivism.
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Cal Grad Student Worker Strike Ends With Deal Panned by Many Rank-and-File Union Members
One dissenting student negotiator said the tentative agreement “does not come close to our initial demands and it leaves a lot of our co-workers still rent burdened, still impoverished.”
Read more...Over the Holidays, Try Talking to Your Relatives Like an Anthropologist
How to talk to your relatives to learn more about their history and the society they once inhabited.
Read more...Salvador Luria, 1912-1991: A Scientist for Our Time
On accomplished scientist, institution-builder, teacher and activitst Salvadore Luria.
Read more...Meet the Grinch Stealing Social Security, the Future of Gen Y And Z
ow Social Security is a victim of wage stagflation.
Read more...Unequal Education and the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’
A look at the role of educational advantage in perpetuating inequality.
Read more...Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science
How sustained funding legitimated race sciene.
Read more...The Political Disruptions of Fiscal Austerity
Confirmation that austerity is bad for political stabiity because ordinary citizens don’t take well to their governments treating them badly.
Read more...‘Solidarity Works!’ Adjunct Strike Ends at The New School After Deal Reached
Part-time faculty at the New School in New York City get a new deal after students occupied university center.
Read more...Death of an Elder Raises Uncomfortable Questions About Adequacy of Care
Some anecdotes on not-great care for the aged.
Read more...Russia’s General Patience and the Pause That Refreshes
Taking stock of the damage done by Russia’s continuing missile attacks and what that means for the war in Ukraine.
Read more...Book Review: An Unflinching Critique of the Eugenics Movement
In “Control,” geneticist Adam Rutherford grapples with the dark history of eugenics and now its engineered implementation.
Read more...State of Big Tech 2022: Dismantling National & Global Digital Enclosures
From fintech to food systems to social media, the State of Big Tech offers a blueprint for the 99% to break privatized status-quo enclosures.
Read more...“Eight Reasons Why Now is a Good Time for a Ukraine Ceasefire and Peace Talks”
Activists make a passionate case for peace in Ukraine. But the principals are not even remotely on board.
Read more...‘People Think of Pelosi as a California Liberal; No, She’s Like a Baltimore Boss’
‘I mean, Christ, this is a woman who was brought up in Baltimore politics. We weren’t working with some neophyte’
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