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What the “Creator Economy” Promises—and What It Actually Does
The influencer is a fading stock character of the Internet’s commedia dell’arte. Often a conventionally attractive white woman, she shows…
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The Importance of Teaching Dred Scott
In January, 2011, the House of Representatives undertook a recitation of the United States Constitution on the House floor. Lawmakers…
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The ProPublica Revelations Show Why We Need to Tax Wealth More Effectively
Thanks to a leak of Internal Revenue Service records to ProPublica, we know just how little some of the richest…
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The Joy of Crossing Paths with Strangers
My brother learned to swim when he was five, in a big pool with lots of other kids splashing for…
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The Age of Reopening Anxiety
Sometime during London’s third lockdown, when everything was still closed, I began watching the squirrels in the tree outside my…
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Is There Any Time Left for Maya Wiley?
Maya Wiley became the top lawyer in City Hall after writing an op-ed. It was January, 2014, and Bill de…
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The Other Side of the May Jobs Report: Higher Wages
Friday’s employment report for May confirmed that the economy is continuing its recovery from the shock of the pandemic. Although…
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The Peril of Not Vaccinating the World
When Gregg Gonsalves was a young AIDS activist and researcher, in the nineteen-nineties, he was struck by a pattern that…
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Protests in Colombia, Elections in Peru, and Other Chaos in the Andes
In the eight years since the death of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, at the age of fifty-eight, his vaunted…
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The Purpose of Political Correctness
Nesrine Malik, a columnist for the Guardian, has covered many of the cultural and political controversies that have emerged in…
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