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Cloud 9 Attempts to Unionize in 'Superstore'

Eryn Murphy CheatSheet
Superstore illustrates the precarious nature of unions in a retail environment with an episode that takes on the vagaries of organizing and negotiations.

What Art Can Do

Lin-Manuel Miranda The Atlantic
What artists can do is bring stories to the table that are unshakably true—the sort of stories that, once you’ve heard them, won’t let you return to what you thought before.

Circus Science

Susan Salaz Lady Science
Physics is what powers the beautiful circus machine, even if the audience is completely oblivious.

Chinese Style Capitalism: Its Strengths Are Also Its Vulnerabilities

Walden Bello Foreign Policy in Focus
Workers at an Apple factory in China.
China’s economy might be called “capitalism with Chinese characteristics,” not “socialism with Chinese characteristics” as Deng Xiaoping described it. Most unique is a Communist Party structure that parallels the government structure at all levels.