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Fresh Hell
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
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
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.

Cradle to Grave
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
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?

Fresh Hell
January 26, 2018
Pass Go, Collect $2.8 billion. This week, Amazon inched us further into our nightmarish future with the opening of Amazon Go: a grocery store without checkout lines or cashiers but chock full of cameras that sense, record, and charge you automatically for every impulse ...

Presidential Confusion
January 26, 2018
Imagine being a presidential scholar in this moment when the highest office in the land has been captured by a barely literate showman.

Memory Keepers
January 25, 2018
Polish women captured the world’s attention when they went on strike, staging massive protests across the country, and successfully halted a proposed ban on abortion.

No Filter
January 24, 2018
What is perhaps as consistent as the badness of Instapoetry is the general unwillingness to speak openly of its badness.