Author Suketu Mehta discusses borders and immigration, and why Western nations must grapple with the legacy of colonialism.
Books, Arts and Culture
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‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Is a Rumination on Fake News
“People, they need to believe. And nowadays, they’ll believe anything.”
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CNN’s Debate Fail
The Democratic debate was an inevitable by-product of turning news into an entertainment and cultural product.
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Trumpistas Seek to Deflate Labor’s Friend
The NLRB persists in its fight to outlaw Scabby the Rat, the balloon rodent who helps out workers when they picket their bosses.
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Impeachment and the Righteous Republicans
Historian Brenda Wineapple discusses her new book The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a New Nation.
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July 16, 2019
Facebook’s Faltering on Libra. I previewed the week’s hearings for Big Tech today on the website, and I wondered whether Silicon Valley would have any allies on Capitol Hill left. It turns out they have a few, but not nearly enough. David Marcus, a vice president of Facebook, testified at the Senate Banking Committee today […]
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Money Against Democracy
How neoliberals captured the machinery of the state to keep citizens from regulating markets
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Hobsbawm, Unrepentant
A new biography connects the life and work of the great radical historian of capitalism.
