Economics

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Any True Recovery Must Include US Workers Any True Recovery Must Include US Workers

The pandemic has exacerbated the cruel inequities of the US economy.

Oct 27, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Wake Up and Smell the Cheetos

Wake Up and Smell the Cheetos Wake Up and Smell the Cheetos

Public intervention. Phone booth, Rivington and Allen Streets, NYC 2020.

Oct 27, 2020 / OppArt / Maia Lorian

Man walks into polling place marked with American flags.

Want to Win Rural Voters? Fight Big Ag. Want to Win Rural Voters? Fight Big Ag.

Too many Democrats are missing on an issue fundamental to farmers: the consolidation of the agriculture sector.

Oct 27, 2020 / Brian Barth

The Very Human Labor That Powers Artificial Intelligence

The Very Human Labor That Powers Artificial Intelligence The Very Human Labor That Powers Artificial Intelligence

Crowd-working platforms obscure—and profit from—the tedious human labor behind the digital age’s shiny successes.

Oct 27, 2020 / Arvind Dilawar

Vote for What You Believe In

Vote for What You Believe In Vote for What You Believe In

Words of optimism.

Oct 26, 2020 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Missoulian building

The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers

Fewer and fewer reporters cover the local institutions whose decisions most directly affect their neighbors’ lives.

Oct 26, 2020 / Gwen Florio

Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey

Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey

The economist predicted that America would be hit harder than our peers by the Covid pandemic because we don’t have national paid leave.

Oct 26, 2020 / Bryce Covert

Cage Rage

Cage Rage Cage Rage

Atlas plugged. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of October 19.

Oct 23, 2020 / Steve Brodner

Women Will Decide

Vote! Vote!

Resist, persist, vote him out.

Oct 23, 2020 / OppArt / Kat Gooch-Breault, India Tresselt, and Dara Herman Zierlein

Cancel Culture

Cancel Culture Cancel Culture

The first 500 years.

Oct 22, 2020 / OppArt / Matt Wuerker

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