A new book details the extreme forms of surveillance imposed on long-haul truckers, robbing them of their power.
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Brothers From Another Planet
Kanye West, Herschel Walker seem pleased with the Pandora’s box of horrors they’ve opened. But when mental health comes into play, this game becomes far more insidious.
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The Corruption of the Legal Profession
A new book shows how corporate law firms bear great responsibility for the degradation of the rule of law.
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Altercation: The American—and Jewish—Divide Over Israel
My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.
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Altercation: Wenner Fake All (Well, Much)
The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.
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Why Meta’s Virtual Worlds Are Failing
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg just doesn’t have that understanding of what people want anymore.
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Altercation: At the Movies
Two new films brilliantly depict the increasingly embattled craft of journalism.
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A Progressive, and Persuasive, Case for a Politics of Persuasion
Anand Giridharadas’s ‘The Persuaders’ profiles activists, organizers, and change-makers charting a path to power through changing minds and ‘calling in.’
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The Magic Kingdom Is Tragic for Workers
A new film from Abigail Disney, granddaughter of the co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, takes a look at how workers have been crushed by a new corporate philosophy.
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Altercation: Maggie Haberman’s New Book Puts Trump in Context
The surprisingly good ‘Confidence Man’ actually makes sense of Trump’s rise and his ability to twist the media to his will.
