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Goldman Sachs Lobby Art Explains Everything That’s Wrong With Our Elites
What this $5 million mural says about art and finance stewing in the same nihilistic culture pot. By James McElroy.
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How I Became Afraid to Visit National Parks
I didn’t know that I have been contributing to the crumbling infrastructure of our national parks. By Mike Ervin.
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The Oligarchs’ ‘Guaranteed Basic Income’ Scam
Don’t buy the oily declarations from the tech billionaires and others that they want to help you survive financially. What they want is to more fully stuff their own pockets. By Chris Hedges.
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The sharks circling around Corbyn scent blood
If you are a radical leftist who believes, as generations of leftists before you have done, that military, political, media, and financial elites operate in the shadows to promote their interests, to wage class war, then not only are you a conspiracy theorist, according to Pfeffer, but you are by definition anti-semitic as well. By Jonathan Cook.
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Hillary Clinton's Trickle-Down America
While they may be thriving economically, coastal cities thrive on income inequality and a politically powerless underclass. By Reihan Salam.
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Austerity is an Algorithm
The Australian government recently tried to replace social services with software. What does fully automated austerity look like? By Gillian Terzis.
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The Dead Enders
In district after district, the Democratic Party machinery is throwing its weight behind congressional candidates who are out of step with the national mood. By Ryan Grim, Lee Fang.
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Paul Krugman got the working class wrong. That blunder had consequences
One of the most influential commentators in the US now recognises that white working-class voters have shifted en masse to the Republicans. By Thomas Frank. (Jan. 10, 2018)
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle
The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: his view of black America is narrow and dangerously misleading. By Cornel West.
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Billionaire Pinera Regains Chile Presidency on Growth Pledge
Billionaire Sebastian Pinera swept to victory in the second round of Chile’s presidential election, putting him back in charge of Latin America’s wealthiest country after four years of anemic growth that drew millions of voters to his pro-business agenda. Stocks posted the biggest intraday gain in six years. By Philip Sanders, Javiera Quiroga.
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This Poisonous Cult of Personality
Donald Trump’s election last year exposed an insidious politics of celebrity, one in which a redemptive personality is projected high above the slow toil of political parties and movements. This may be hard to admit but the path to such a presidency of spectacle and vicarious participation was paved by the previous occupant of the White House. By Pankaj Mishra.
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Uber’s problem: a culture of dishonesty
There are numerous examples of a deceitful culture at Uber and more examples keep coming out. By Leonid Bershidsky.
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What Harvey Weinstein tells us about the liberal world
Harvey Weinstein seemed to fit right in. This is a form of liberalism that routinely blends self-righteousness with upper-class entitlement. By Thomas Frank.
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Democrats Plan to Name Lobbyists, Operatives as Superdelegates
The Democratic Party this week plans to name 75 people including lobbyists and political operatives to leadership posts that come with superdelegate votes at its next presidential convention, potentially aggravating old intraparty tensions as it struggles to confront President Donald Trump. By Jennifer Epstein.
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Citizens of anywhere
Globalisation has turned citizenship into a commodity. Matthew Valencia went shopping for a new passport and found bargains to be had.
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Irma and María: Shedding Light on Puerto Rico’s Colonial Reality
Puerto Rico is no stranger to crisis. By Ana Portnoy.
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Modern Family
It is no accident that our age of hyper-capitalism is also one of aggressive “family values,” pursued in popular culture and legislation alike. By James Chappel.
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The Blathering Superego at the End of History
Emmett Rensin offers a psychoanalysis of managerial liberalism.
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How work changed to make us all passionate quitters
When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit. By Ilana Gershon.
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“Neoliberalism” isn’t an empty epithet. It’s a real, powerful set of ideas
The word captures something crucial about the faction that took over the Democratic Party after Reagan. By Mike Konczal.
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