Author: Astra Taylor

Columns

Missing Perspectives

Astra Taylor

May 10, 2017

Links from YouTubers in the refugee diaspora.

Lives Are on the Line

Sarah Jaffe

May 09, 2017

I am Adam Gaffney. I am a physician, Pulmonary and Critical Care. I am an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

What Work Is

Hanif Abdurraqib

May 09, 2017

We forget that the independent artist might also be the industrial worker, hustling in the hours after clocking out.

Our Lady of Complicity

Laurie Penny

May 09, 2017

At times, Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work reads like the panicked screams of a machine attaining sentience.

A Waiting Room of One’s Own

Gillian Terzis

May 08, 2017

Forward, the startup touted by Bloomberg as “The Doctor’s Office of the Future,” seems oddly squeamish about the business it’s in.

Robin Triumphant

Arthur Goldhammer

May 08, 2017

The 66 percent of the French who voted for Macron in the grand finale still have no idea who he really is.

Bargaining For the Common Good

Sarah Jaffe

May 05, 2017

"Who are the individual people that are funding Islamophobia and who are the corporations that are profiting from it?"

How to Settle Down with Dystopia

Niela Orr

May 05, 2017

Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale steeps the viewer in the slow-mo accretion of disaster.

Startup Monarchy

Amber A’Lee Frost,  Sam Kriss

May 05, 2017

Episode 5: The robotic royal family, Trump's first hundred days, Sam makes art.

Waitin’ on the Student Debt Jubilee

Amber A’Lee Frost

May 04, 2017

Going to college was a good decision, but deciding not to pay back my student loans was a better one.

Contingent No More

Maximillian Alvarez

May 03, 2017

Academic mythology merges seamlessly with self-serving fantasies of meritocracy and capitalistic bootstrapism.

Operation Mensch

Emmett Rensin

May 02, 2017

How could somebody as doggedly patriotic as recent American citizen Louise Mensch be a secret agent of the Kremlin?