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The Great Socialist Bake Off

Josh Freedman Jacobin
The Great British Bake Off isn't just wonderful entertainment. By prizing cooperation over cutthroat competition and solidarity over selfishness, it's also quietly radical.

The Day After Macri’s Downfall

Martín Mosquera Jacobin
Argentina's recent elections have set the country's right on the path to defeat. But that won't immediately put the working class back in the driver's seat — much greater mobilization is needed for that.

Lessons from a Big, Flawed Story About the New York Public School System

Alexandria Neason Columbia Journalism Review
Public School #10, Brooklyn, New York.
Alexandria Neason critiques a widely circulated article by Atlantic writer George Packer on his experience with New York public schools, and how the lack of diversity in its ranks allows the media to easily label one experience as emblematic of many.

Everything Must Go: Selling Off and Selling Out the Public Sector

Whitney Curry Wimbish The Baffler
Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital, San Antonio, TX.
Selling off public assets and contracting out basic government functions has never been a cause driven by strong popular sentiment. Nonetheless, Trump is but the latest President, Democrat and Republican alike, to champion privatization.

Nurses Say: Patients’ Rights Have No Borders

Bonnie Castillo Red Pepper
As a US-friendly no-deal Brexit inches closer, Bonnie Castillo of National Nurses United explains why US nurses have joined the fight against NHS privatisation.