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Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell Wants You to Reclaim Your Time Jenny Odell Wants You to Reclaim Your Time

A conversation with the How to Do Nothing author, Jenny Odell, about her new book, Saving Time: Discovering Life Beyond the Clock.

Mar 6, 2023 / Q&A / Sara Franklin

Trump speaks at a podium

Reports of Trump’s Demise Are Premature, and His Threat of “Retribution” Is Serious Reports of Trump’s Demise Are Premature, and His Threat of “Retribution” Is Serious

At CPAC, the former president outlines his plan to regain the GOP nomination—and the White House.

Mar 6, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Not So Bullet-Resistant

Not So Bullet-Resistant Not So Bullet-Resistant

One shot, eight shots, all deadly.

Mar 6, 2023 / OppArt / Katherine Jackson

What Life Is Like in Fresno’s “War Zone”

What Life Is Like in Fresno’s “War Zone” What Life Is Like in Fresno’s “War Zone”

A community of migrants and unhoused people call the shuttered downtown of this California city home.

Mar 6, 2023 / Photo Essay / David Bacon

Garrett Broshuis

How Minor League Ballplayers Won a Union How Minor League Ballplayers Won a Union

The players who make America’s pastime possible have had enough of dismal working conditions, and they’re organizing to change them.

Mar 6, 2023 / Feature / Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier

FDR and New Dealers in car

The Case Against Privatizing Social Security The Case Against Privatizing Social Security

For the New Deal’s 90th birthday, let’s deliver a cake, not a hand grenade.

Mar 4, 2023 / Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, Harold M. Ickes, and James Roosevelt Jr.

Why Do Republicans Keep Pretending to Be Jewish?

Why Do Republicans Keep Pretending to Be Jewish? Why Do Republicans Keep Pretending to Be Jewish?

The GOP keeps running candidates who have discovered they can benefit from these highly cynical identity hoaxes.

Mar 4, 2023 / Column / Alexis Grenell

Getting to Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds

Getting to Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds Getting to Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds

Workers learn governing power through high-participation negotiations. That’s also how they can get employers to the table.

Mar 4, 2023 / Column / Jane McAlevey

The Costs and Contradictions of Ballet

The Costs and Contradictions of Ballet The Costs and Contradictions of Ballet

Alice Robb’s Don’t Think, Dear and Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s What You Become in Flight explore both the liberating sense of art and the domineering logic of ballet.

Mar 4, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Glory Liu

US naval officers walking through the city of Olongapo in 1972

The American Repossession of the Philippines The American Repossession of the Philippines

As the US dramatically expands its military presence, colonialist history is repeating itself.

Mar 4, 2023 / Feature / Walden Bello

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