Toward the end of Netflix’s new documentary-drama The Social Dilemma, former Google employee Tristan Harris describes technology as “simultaneous utopia and dystopia.” This quote encapsulates the focus of the film.
In Vineland, Thomas Pynchon's dour 1990 novel, the author of Gravity’s Rainbow anticipated a United States where all available definitions of freedom are channeled through security apparatuses understood as the greatest good. Sound familiar?
This new book analyzes the history of the intertwined relationship in the United States between Christianity and white supremacy.
Coronavirus shortages prompt a foodie to reflect on 50 years of change
Amazon's The Boys' Stormfront is a frightening picture of modern fascism.
Labor
Through “pro-labor” conservatives like Oren Cass, the populist right is offering an updated fantasy that Republicans are champions of the working class. They aren’t and never will be.
U.S. Steel notified employees that they would lay off as many as 737 workers at the Granite City plant in late April.
Americans are viewing unions favorably, and that could help Joe Biden.
IndustriALL general secretary Valter Sanches explains what trade unions can do to tackle abuses stretching across international supply chains
Unions are uncommon in the ad industry. But the disappearance of thousands of agency jobs in the pandemic and agencies’ growing use of AI to perform tasks like media planning and buying, and market research, could make unionization more appealing,
Unions must root out the racism within their ranks, then leverage relationships members have in their own communities and focus on transforming the lives of workers, both inside and outside the workplace.
The FBI warns that election results may be delayed, Trump continues to go after mail-in voting, and the Supreme Court has the power to help the president steal the election. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #2020Election
Revealing snippets of working class life. From the album "The Unraveling".
Donald Trump was loudly booed by crowds as he visited the Supreme Court to pay his respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late justice and liberal icon who died last week aged 87.
Republicans speaking honestly about our President Donald Trump. Are you a Republican, ex-Republican, or Trump-voter who won’t support the president this November? Share your story here: https://rvat.org/tell-your-story
There's hard problems, and then there's really hard problems. But it's hard to pin down the difference between them.
With President Trump blaming "blue states" for coronavirus deaths and Attorney General William Barr calling for sedition charges against protestors, you might have overlooked the revelation that the U.S. has a secret heat ray weapon and considered using it against demonstrators in Washington DC.
With another Supreme Court nomination looming, Old Man Fibber is back in the headlines. "Ol' Man River" music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, parody lyrics by Roy Zimmerman and Melanie Harby
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