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Immigration and the Carceral State

The Nostalgia Trap

June 27, 2018

The Nostalgia Trap podcast, hosted by David Parsons and produced by Peter Sabatino, features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how individual lives intersect ...

Brown Existence Anxiety

Rafia Zakaria

June 26, 2018

Alienated

It never leaves me, this paranoia borne of being brown and female, immigrant and Muslim in the age of Trump. It is with me while I am waiting to have my blood drawn at a clinic and the two plump white grandmothers switch from talking about their grandchildren to how they like ...

Reimagining the Middle Class

Ann Neumann

June 26, 2018

We need to reimagine what it means to be successful, what it means to be middle class.

They Want New Blood

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

June 25, 2018

Is the Suraj Patel campaign offering progressive politics as sanitized global design?

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

June 22, 2018

“I’m from Cleveland. I like TGI Fridays.”

Comrades at Arms

Amber A’Lee Frost

June 21, 2018

Your Sorry Ass

The issue is that after college, my friend started working for one the largest U.S. arms manufacturers!

Out of Sight, Out of Our Minds

Ed Burmila

June 20, 2018

The people in Australia's island detention facilities have been exploited at every turn. They're a model of where we're headed.

The Death of Media

Maximillian Alvarez

June 20, 2018

The Poverty of Theory

As the planet chokes on electronic waste, a recycler goes to prison.

On the Way to Mexico’s Vote

Joseph Huff-Hannon

June 19, 2018

The coming July 1 election has brought out fake TV ads, robocalls, and a leading populist candidate.

Writing Attica’s History

The Nostalgia Trap

June 19, 2018

The 100th episode of The Nostalgia Trap with Heather Ann Thompson, author of "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy."

Begone, President!

J.W. McCormack

June 18, 2018

The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, merely confirms the claim of its title.

Can Liberals Give Peace a Chance?

Max B. Sawicky

June 18, 2018

There is no threat to the U.S. for the simple reason that all parties understand that any use of nuclear weapons would invite total destruction. Deterrence is a given.