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Samuel Beckett wants you to have a less bad day.

Prison labor as the past—and future—of American “free-market” capitalism.

Occupy Wall Street isn't just producing art work, it's challenging the boundaries of art and activism.

The crushing burden of student debt has shattered the American dream for a whole generation. They want their future back.

How the World Trade Center turned Manhattan into a planned community.

The aesthetic illusions of a Korean artist.

Numerous cities are littered with “downtown catalysts” that failed to catalyze.

By providing all-expenses paid trips to Israel for Jewish young adults, US funders and Israeli politicians are creating the next generations of American Zionists.

A person can only eat so much, but the craving for money is boundless—the purse, not the belly, is the void that is never filled.

If we value the planet, we are going to have to get cruel and blunt about defending its beautiful geography from the fossil fuel industry.