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Next Sohee Is Korean Cinema at Its Bleak and Brilliant Best

Kap Seol Jacobin
Behind South Korea’s economic growth, there’s a system that grinds workers to the bone at every stage of the life cycle, from high school students to retirees. The film Next Sohee dramatizes the impact of that system to devastating effect.

The Beautiful Game Is Getting Ugly

Whitney Curry Wimbish, Emma Janssen The American Prospect
Soccer fans braved a winter storm to demand FIFA President Gianni Infantino reject Trump’s white supremacy, using the slogan ‘No ICE in Our Cup.’

Six Myths About Rural America: How Conventional Wisdom Gets It Wrong

Tim Slack, Shannon M. Monnat The Conversation
We are rural demographers who study the causes and consequences of well-being in rural America. Here we outline six myths about rural America highlighted in our recent book “Rural and Small-Town America: Context, Composition, and Complexities.”

Get on the Job and Organize: A Q&A With Jaz Brisack

Chris Mills Rodrigo Inequality.org
The labor organizer at the core of the Starbucks Workers United campaign wants a braver labor movement. Their new book is titled "Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World."

The Case for a Third Reconstruction

K. Sabeel Rahman Dissent Magazine
The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.