Graduate Students on Strike

Members of United Auto Workers Local 2865 Jacobin
UAW Local 2865 has called a strike. For many grad students, the very idea of a contract governing the limits and conditions of our labor is a source of skepticism and even derision. This system is not an alternative to the working world - it is the model every employer would eagerly adopt. Far from prefiguring an emancipated society, the university offers a foretaste of the total domination of workers by management.

For Sale

Tom Toles The Washington Post

Michael Lewis' 'Flash Boys'

Janet Maslin The New York Times
Lewis’s depicts the kind of high-frequency trading that can transmit stock market information from New York to Chicago and back in one-tenth of the blink of an eye and has divided the world of stock traders into the haves and have-nots, depending on what speeds they can afford.

The College Football Assembly Line

Nelson Lichtenstein Reuters
Americans, including football and basketball fans, are fed up with the fiction peddled by the NCAA and the powerhouse sports factories that the players are serious students as well as trained athletes.

Jane Goodall: How She Redefined Mankind

Henry Nicholls mosaic@future
Primatologist Jane Goodall, turning 80 this week, tells Henry Nicholls the inside story on how she transformed our understanding of chimpanzees, what it means to be human, and the controversy and condescension she faced in her influential career.

Honey Maid: Love

We made a commercial about what makes families, family. And we received a lot of comments. See what we did with them.