Missing Perspectives
May 10, 2017
Links from YouTubers in the refugee diaspora.
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Lives Are on the Line
I am Adam Gaffney. I am a physician, Pulmonary and Critical Care. I am an instructor at Harvard Medical School.
What Work Is
We forget that the independent artist might also be the industrial worker, hustling in the hours after clocking out.
Our Lady of Complicity
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
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
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
"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
Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale steeps the viewer in the slow-mo accretion of disaster.
Startup Monarchy
Episode 5: The robotic royal family, Trump's first hundred days, Sam makes art.
Waitin’ on the Student Debt Jubilee
Going to college was a good decision, but deciding not to pay back my student loans was a better one.
Contingent No More
Academic mythology merges seamlessly with self-serving fantasies of meritocracy and capitalistic bootstrapism.
Operation Mensch
May 02, 2017
How could somebody as doggedly patriotic as recent American citizen Louise Mensch be a secret agent of the Kremlin?