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Feature
What the Sharing Economy Takes
Uber and Airbnb monetize the desperation of people in the post-crisis economy while sounding generous—and evoke a fantasy of community in an atomized population.
Doug Henwood
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Uber and the Taxi Industry’s Last Stand
What the rise of the app-based cab service says about the future of work in America
Jon Liss
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Am I a ‘Radical’?
We can no longer hope to address the climate crisis, or our deep social ills, by working strictly within the system. We must change the system itself.
James Gustave Speth
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Editorial
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How the Roberts Supreme Court Has Strengthened the Powerful and Screwed Everyone Else
From criminal justice to workers’ and voting rights to campaign finance, it has defied customs that buttress the Court’s legitimacy.
Nan Aron, William Yeomans and Michelle D. Schwartz
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What Syriza’s Victory Means for Greece—and for Europe
The election was a triumph for anti-austerity politics and a rejection of corruption. Now comes the hard part.
Maria Margaronis
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Column
Fox News: The World’s Comic Relief
Our friends abroad give the network the derision and the mockery it deserves.
Eric Alterman
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The Spectacular Incoherence of Race Goes Global
From Ferguson to France, pliable racial categories are used to mark who counts as fully human—and who does not.
Patricia J. Williams
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Books & the Arts
Latin Lives
Is the revival of a dead language breathing new life into the humanities?
Anthony Grafton
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The Zeitgeist of No Zeitgeist
MoMA’s “Forever Now” trumpets art with a shallow sense of tradition.
Barry Schwabsky
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Letters
Letters
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Our Readers
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3353
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto