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Surveillance Valley

Yasha Levine

February 06, 2018

If the Internet is truly such a revolutionary break from the past, why are companies like Google in bed with cops and spies?

Faster, Higher, Stronger, More Harmonious

Martin Fritz Huber

February 05, 2018

If sports are capable of “building a peaceful and better world,” they are just as likely to make people act like idiots.

The Reboot of the Elites

Chris Lehmann

February 05, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

Ardent neoliberals tend to come into their own political convictions much as Joseph Kennedy III has: as a matter of class inheritance.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 02, 2018

From Tween to Tycoon and You Can, Too! Dream big and learn fast coos Teen Bo$$, the latest in required reading for tweens and teens baptized in the entrepreneurial waters of the free market and ready to build a personal brand. Brought into the world last summer and targeting the ...

Dreams Deferred

Rachel Bryan

February 02, 2018

To be young, gay, and undocumented in Alabama is to understand that "deferred action" means your freedoms are on hold.

State of the Unions

Noah Hurowitz

February 01, 2018

Don't trust any argument that rests more on the feelings of workers than on the massive power imbalance gifted to employers.

Simulacra, Inc.

Jonathon Sturgeon

February 01, 2018

The Immediate Experience

“Disneyfication” used to mean sanitization and infantilization. Now, Disney comes to represent nothing less than the smooth functioning of media capitalism.

Communicator Breakdown

Tom Carson

January 31, 2018

Trump’s fledgling State of the Union deliberately sought to conceal a multitude of sins.

Kitchen-Sink Drama

Amber A’Lee Frost

January 31, 2018

Your Sorry Ass

Help! I would like to salvage this garbage fire of a relationship, but I need his mom out of my fridge and out of my life.

Cradle to Grave

Helen Charman

January 30, 2018

Like abortion, the lack of action on maternal mortality is connected to ideology. Under capitalism, a woman’s body is a means of production like any other.

The Reaching-Out Industry

Tim Donnelly

January 30, 2018

A whole new cottage industry has popped up seeking a more earnest, direct conversation, begging Trump voters to sit down and explain: how exactly did we get this way?

No Re-Turning Point, U.S.A.

Maximillian Alvarez

January 26, 2018

The Poverty of Theory

When I look at TPUSA, I don’t see an organization looking for dialogue—I see an occupying force.