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Apple—now worth a trillion dollars—redistributes more wealth upward than any country or corporation on the planet.
How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management
By “dangling the carrot” to improve worker productivity, businesses are taking a page from slavery’s playbook.
Courts to the Rescue?
When it comes to fighting Trump’s regulatory agenda, it is the D.C. Circuit that will matter, not the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Debt to Syria
With Assad preparing a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold, the United States must offer a path forward.
When Catholicism Embraced Modernity
In the mid-twentieth century, the Church radically changed its position on whether religion is a public or private matter.
Erdogan’s Ottomania
In a bid to consolidate power, Erdoğan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.
The Democrats’ Yawning Silence on Trade
The party has not articulated an alternative trade agenda that supports all the world’s workers in a global economy.
Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible
The revolutionaries of 1968 didn't succeed, but the world still needs turning upside down.
Hoverboarding While Black
In the era of digital neighborhoods, social networks embolden a new kind of racial surveillance.
An Essential Form of Human Research
Natalie Diaz interviews Lisa Olstein, author of the collection Late Empire
‘Hidden Noise.’ Kathryn Cowles. Wood, cloth, paper, twine, thread, furniture, building materials, body. 2017
Summer Poetry Reading
Reviews of new poetry from Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Kimberly Burwick, Caroline Crumpacker, Kathy Fagan, Jennifer Firestone, and Virginia Konchan
Hurtling Headlong into ‘Cruel Futures’
Carmen Giménez Smith’s fifth collection of poetry presents a nimble mind navigating a ruptured world.
The Order Is Bullet
One of the most important contemporary poets of Francophone Africa, Josué Guébo writes in language that is raucous, difficult, and outrageously beautiful.
Democracy Is a Habit: Practice It
John Dewey cautioned that institutions alone won’t save us.
Public Benefit, Incorporated
Three simple changes to corporate law could radically remake our economy.
From the Editors: Once and Future Feminist
How can women possibly be free if they must carry the burden of reproductive labor?
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