Counting the Dead

Susan Cossette New Verse News
Minnesota poet Susan Cossette addresses the ultimate misogyny—“Faceless, nameless shadows…/Now, we matter more in death.”

Boeing Machinists Strike

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
Workers in yellow jackets holding Strike Against Boeing signs.
The rejected contract covers 32,000 workers in Washington and Oregon, members of Machinists District 751 in Washington and W24 in Oregon. Most work at the two plants near Seattle. It’s the largest strike in the U.S. this year.

The Naked ‘Survivor’ Guy Theory of U.S. Politics

Michael Hirschorn The New York Times
If reality television began as a crude simulacrum of real life, today the opposite can feel true — that actual life is approximating reality television, and we’ve all been conscripted as cast members. The contagion has leaked from the lab.