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Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is the cofounder of the Debt Collective, a union of debtors. She is the director of numerous documentaries and the author of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart and Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, among other works. Her latest book is Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, coauthored with Leah Hunt-Hendrix.

Hope and Ka-ching

Everyone is equal at New Era Windows Cooperative, a factory on the southwest side of Chicago. There is no owner to answer to because everyone is an owner; there are no outside shareholders to choose a board of directors. There is no boss because the workers fired him. I paid a ...

Serfing the Net

We are living in an age of unprecedented creativity, they tell us. But there was a dark time not long ago, the story goes, when authors exercised dictatorial control over passive readers, movie studios foisted films on captive audiences, listeners were held hostage in their ...