Broken Records
If you can’t carry a tune, you can’t take the White House. Here are some of the more memorable campaign songs in American history.
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Constitutional Calcification
The process for constitutional amendment is an uphill battle. Since 1789, almost 12,000 amendments have been proposed — but only 27 have passed. It’s been 50 years since one has made its way to the states for ratification.
Posting Cringe
Dispatches from Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post.
Political Football
On November 20, the 2022 World Cup began in Qatar. It is the first time the event has been held in the Middle East. Over the last ten years, countless migrant workers suffered abuse and exploitation, and even died, to make it possible.
Beaucoup
There have been eight coups d’état in West Africa since 2020 — a marked uptick after years on the decline. The US has trained and armed many of the responsible parties. It’s 10 PM: Do you know where your tax dollars are going?
Hot Labor Summer
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Issue 46: The Internet Speaks
We really need to log off.
Issue 46: Letters
If you read our issue, we’ll read your letters.
Inflation Jargon Explained
Defining the terms you keep pretending to understand.
Food Fights
From the earliest days of American history through the first decades of the 20th century, Americans rose up repeatedly to beat back rising food costs. They did so out of the belief that all members of the community had the right to a just price for bread.
Europe’s Breadbasket
As war rages in Ukraine, farmers have abandoned their work mid-season to take up arms against Russia. Those who stayed behind are in a race to harvest their crops before stray rockets torch their fields.
The American Right’s Joan Baez
Not every 1960s folk singer was a comrade.
Too Many Commas
Children of the Weimar Republic play with devalued banknotes, 1919. Others found use for the worthless marks as wallpaper, craft and kite material, and kindling.
Issue 46: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
Spring Turned to Winter
The widespread popular upheaval known as the “Arab Spring” ended one decade ago this year. Tunisia, whose Jasmine Revolution inspired many other demonstrations in 2011, is the only country to participate that still has an intact democracy. But even Tunisia now slouches back toward authoritarianism.
Tracking the Wave of Starbucks Worker Organizing
Venti cappuccino in one hand and a ballot in the other, the Starbucks organizing drive is on a roll.
The Fabric of Civilization
Taiwan leads the world in the production of semiconductor material, the basis of the microchips found in everything from cell phones to medical equipment. Washington and Beijing aren’t happy about it.