Nicholas Liu is a journalist and writer based in the New York–Connecticut corridor. His work has been featured in Salon, Smithsonian Magazine, Vulture, and other publications. He writes a Substack called Angry Peasants.
Every year, an algorithm assigns thousands of medical students to residencies they can’t leave, can’t negotiate with, and can’t refuse. The Match system creates a captive workforce that stiffs residents and generates billions for the health care industry.
A new crop of young Democratic Party challengers is running on generational politics alone, hoping to capitalize on voters’ hunger for change without running afoul of the centrist establishment.
Because capitalism orients people toward profit rather than allowing us to pursue our interests freely, it inevitably separates humans from the creative act. AI art is just the slop frothing up from that gap.
Politicians have long used red-baiting to win Asian American votes, assuming an aversion to anything labeled socialist. But Zohran Mamdani’s primary triumph in Asian immigrant neighborhoods suggests that economic populism can overcome ideological baggage.
A new crop of young Democratic Party challengers is running on generational politics alone, hoping to capitalize on voters’ hunger for change without running afoul of the centrist establishment’s political preferences.
Business schools claim they’re training noble civic leaders, not money-grubbing managers. But beneath the ethics classes and talk of social responsibility, they’re still just finishing schools for capitalism’s managerial aristocracy.