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Prophet of a Lost World
John Dunlop specialized in labor/management conflict resolution, but his deal making grew more perilous as corporate anti-unionism grew.
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When the Politics of Class Turned Upside Down
Fifty years ago, the Republicans began laying claim to the white working class.
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‘We’re Outsourcing Our Decision-Making to Machines’
In her new film ‘Coded Bias,’ filmmaker Shalini Kantayya explores how algorithms deployed in our most essential institutions are rife with human biases.
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‘I Just Don’t Hear It’
How whiteness dilutes voices of color at public radio stations
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Democracy: A Transformative Agenda
A conversation with legal scholar and policy expert Ganesh Sitaraman
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The Afflictions of the Comfortable
How high-profile writers drop their masks in the pandemic
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When Henry Wallace Warned of ‘American Fascism’
The progressive vice president to FDR is the subject of a new book by Nation correspondent John Nichols.
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Monopolies Are Why Salt and Water in a Bag Became a Scarce Item
An excerpt from a new book on life in the age of corporate power