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Booked: Imagining a World with No Bullshit Jobs
As many as half of the jobs we do could be considered pointless, estimates anthropologist David Graeber. How did so many of these jobs come to exist, and what does it mean for labor activists?
As many as half of the jobs we do could be considered pointless, estimates anthropologist David Graeber. How did so many of these jobs come to exist, and what does it mean for labor activists?
With last week’s referendum, the “Show-Me” state showed that the right’s assault on organized labor does not stand the test of democracy.
How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.
Can a prison novel set in the age of mass incarceration have a successful escape? Rachel Kushner’s answer is at once hopeless and transformative.
How a colonial dream ran Morocco dry.
A new documentary reveals how the right-wing attack on the national, grassroots anti-poverty group ACORN was a dress rehearsal for our current toxic political culture.
Born on the radical left and then seized by the right, has the concept of “capitalism” outlived its usefulness?
The Republican right has developed a playbook for suppressing the votes of the young, the poor, and people of color. Here are some of the most common tactics, and how to fight back.
The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. Yet 150 years later, its promises remain unfulfilled.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential election reflects widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo—and a broad-based mandate to transform the country.
To be human is to shape the world, to create the infrastructure of our common lives. What do we do when that infrastructure becomes a trap?
Today’s crises call on humanity to act collectively, but this possibility seems more and more remote. How do we break the cycle? A dialogue.
The Trump administration may have put a hold on separating families. But it is pushing through a range of other measures to keep migrants out—not least women fleeing violence and persecution.
The Janus decision is a significant setback for democracy. What should public-sector workers do now?
In his monumental novel, Berlin Alexanderplatz, psychiatrist and aesthetic contrarian Alfred Döblin captured the Weimar Berlin that he knew from his patients.