A Petrodollar and a Dream
Any reversal of neoliberalism in the Middle East would require challenging powerful Gulf States.
Issue No. 13 | Winter 2014
Any reversal of neoliberalism in the Middle East would require challenging powerful Gulf States.
There’s no way toward a sustainable future without tackling environmentalism’s old stumbling blocks: consumption and jobs. And the way to do that is through a universal basic income.
On Ibrahim Sharif and the misleadingly-dubbed “Arab Spring.”
Though easy targets for fiscal hawks, public architecture that’s luxurious and dramatic — even excessive — should be ours as a right.
“Do what you love” is the mantra for today’s worker. Why should we assert our class interests if, according to DWYL elites like Steve Jobs, there’s no such thing as work?
Evo Morales’s administration has scored some successes, but it has failed to deliver on its more radical promises.
Brooklyn nostalgia has done more than sell hot dogs and baseball memorabilia.
Gravity points us back to the sensation cinema practices of the silent era, and it’s dimly possible that the American film industry might save itself by learning, or re-learning, from them.
When police unions have widened their gaze beyond issues like compensation and working conditions, it’s been almost exclusively to conservative ends.
A view inside C&S Wholesale Grocers, America’s secret corporate empire.
The American government’s response to the 2007–8 financial crisis reveals an increasing tension between its domestic and global responsibilities.
History is littered with horrifying examples of the misuse of evolutionary theory to justify power and inequality. Welcome to a new age of biological determinism.
The failure of the American left to engage more substantially on environmental issues at home has real consequences for the expansion of neoliberalism worldwide.