Paying CEOs Top Dollar for Poor Performance Paying CEOs Top Dollar for Poor Performance
A new report reveals that America’s highest-paid CEOs often do their jobs badly, leaving taxpayers to clean up the mess.
Aug 28, 2013 / Zoƫ Carpenter
Courage Is Contagious: Fast Food Workers Expected to Protest Low Wages Nationwide Courage Is Contagious: Fast Food Workers Expected to Protest Low Wages Nationwide
Fast food and retail workers all across the country will strike on Thursday, August 29, to demand living wages.
Aug 28, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny
Arrested for Singing Arrested for Singing
Civil rights and labor activist David Newby is not done dissenting.
Aug 28, 2013 / John Nichols
The Colonist of Good Will: On Albert Camus The Colonist of Good Will: On Albert Camus
Algerian Chronicles shows that Camus still has something to say to us—not about terrorism but economic justice.
Aug 27, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
Drawing the Line: Architects and Prisons Drawing the Line: Architects and Prisons
A call for architects to refuse to design chambers of living death.
Aug 27, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Eating a Macintosh Apple Eating a Macintosh Apple
Eating a Macintosh apple she showed me her crumpled lips. And afterward she didn’t know what to do she couldn’t even discard that small mangled thing that more and more turned yellow in her hand. And daylight’s the time to get drunk when the body still waits for surprises from light and from rhythm, when it still has the energy to invent a disaster. (translated from the Italian by David Shapiro with Gini Alhadeff)
Aug 27, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Patrizia Cavalli
Two Hours Ago I Fell in Love Two Hours Ago I Fell in Love
Two hours ago I fell in love and trembled, and tremble still, and haven’t a clue whom I should tell. (translated from the Italian by Mark Strand)
Aug 27, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Patrizia Cavalli
World-Historical Worries World-Historical Worries
David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess
Aug 27, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3292 Puzzle No. 3292
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Aug 27, 2013 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto