Wilson draws on the work of researchers like Russell Belk (on “the extended self”), Paul Rozin (on magical thinking), and Marcel Mauss (on gift-giving) to help us understand why we invest so much meaning in material things.
Late-night hosts recounted the president’s latest alarming behaviour from threatening elected officials with jail to demanding a Nobel peace prize
Drawing on his experience in the technology sector, poet Randall Mann discloses how much he can't disclose.
Two cutting-edge researchers examine the scourge of anti-science.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another deserves all the hype it’s getting. Run, don’t walk, to this thrilling, hilarious, moving, and all too prescient portrait of American radicals on the run from right-wing authoritarians.
The Trump administration is decrying diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The move is hurting communities and undermining its own goals for agriculture.
How is a straightforward Apple TV+ series that condemns white supremacists controversial?
Labor
The Hands Off NYC campaign — backed by the city’s largest labor unions and civic groups, launched a citywide campaign to “protect and prepare” the city from potential federal or military intervention.
Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing how to defend clean energy from Donald Trump.
UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.
The Trump administration may reopen a loophole that allows investment brokers to enrich themselves at clients’ expense.
If Salvation Army residential work employees earned at least a minimum wage and overtime pay, program participants would be properly compensated for their labor rather than exploited, overworked, and underpaid.
The White House's Office of Management and Budget argues an amendment to a 2019 act would not guarantee furloughed workers post-shutdown pay.
Trump pretends to forget Ghislaine Maxwell’s name while not ruling out a pardon, and his recent obsession with whether he’ll make it to heaven
In the womb, Stephanie was meant to develop male. But an issue with her adrenal glands reversed the process.
Tristan Harris calls on us to learn from the mistakes of social media’s catastrophic rollout, offering a “narrow path” where power is matched with responsibility, foresight and wisdom
Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who Donald Trump told Pam Bondi publicly to prosecute
Everything you need to know about how Trump and the Republicans plan to interfere with the 2026 and 2028 elections
Trump's erratic behavior is leading more public figures to speak out about whether Trump is well enough to serve. Rep. Madeleine Dean confronts House Speaker Mike Johnson.
White House sources have confirmed the successful execution of 19-year-old college sophomore Evan Dixon late last night by an elite team of special forces.
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