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Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery

Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery

David McNally Offers a Marxist Perspective on the Economics of Human Exploitation

By David McNally | September 22, 2025

An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession

By Padraic X. Scanlan | May 7, 2025

Invasions, Empires, Political Bromances: Five Nonfiction Books That Explain Modern Russia

Invasions, Empires, Political Bromances: Five Nonfiction Books That Explain Modern Russia

Charles Hecker Recommends Joshua Yaffa, Svetlana Alexievich, David Remnick, and More

By Charles Hecker | March 4, 2025

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

Leaning Into the Death of Lean-In Feminism and Its Many Resurrections in Our Conflicted Zeitgeist

By Sophie Lewis | February 18, 2025

Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

Robert D. Kaplan Reflects on Globalization’s Shifting Definitions in the Age of Social Media

By Robert D. Kaplan | January 29, 2025

Balancing the Books: Five Novels that Explore the Complexities of the Stock Market

Balancing the Books: Five Novels that Explore the Complexities of the Stock Market

Samantha Greene Woodruff Recommends Tom Wolfe, David Liss, Michael Lewis, and More

By Samantha Greene Woodruff | October 10, 2024

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Land Theft: The Alarming Racial Wealth Gap in America Today

Land Theft: The Alarming Racial Wealth Gap in America Today

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How Walmart’s Business Model Encourages Gender Discrimination

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Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit Explore the Impact of Extreme Cost-Cutting on Labor Rights

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What the NFT Phenomenon Tells Us About the Monetary and Creative Value of Art

What the NFT Phenomenon Tells Us About the Monetary and Creative Value of Art

Zachary Small Explores the Intersection of New Technologies, Financial Speculation and Artistic Creation

By Zachary Small | May 22, 2024

We Made This Economy, and We Can Remake It: Natalie Foster on Building a Better America

We Made This Economy, and We Can Remake It: Natalie Foster on Building a Better America

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By Natalie Foster | April 29, 2024

Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

In Which “the Intellectual Handmaidens of the Capitalists” Are Taken to Task

By Joseph E. Stiglitz | April 24, 2024

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