Much of the late Joan Didion’s writing from the 1960s and ’70s is characterized by a pessimism about the New Left. She thought hippies and the rest of the counterculture were worthy of contempt, and she thought radicals like the Black Panther Party and various Marxist groups were both ludicrously far from power and frightening menaces to society.
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When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
The Rural Electrification Act (REA), passed in 1936 as part of the New Deal, enabled the federal government to provide loans to rural electric cooperatives. Access to electricity transformed education, farm work, and home life for communities previously ignored by big electric companies. Nearly 50 years after the passage of the act, the North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives conducted 44 interviews with rural residents whose lives were affected by the REA.
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Despite sixty years of US blockade, Cuba continues its impressive medical research and development.
While Congress stalled, the state of American infrastructure grew dire.
You’ve probably never heard of one of the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs around.
After decades in hibernation, COVID has unleashed inflation once again. Before we can fight it, we need to understand it.
Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion. But he’s spent years producing value for the company as a humble content creator.
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Defining the terms you keep pretending to understand.
Another failed experiment in socialist democracy.
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