Issue 45: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
225 Articles by: Editors
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ESPN Says It’s Okay to Gamble Now
Our sports entertainment industry has become interlinked with gambling interests.
Built for a Supervillain
Jacobin ranks the all-time best James Bond villain secret lairs.
At Starbucks, There Are No Workers, Only “Partners”
A December 2021 missive from managers at the Elmwood Avenue location of Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, after workers voted 18 to 9 in favor of unionizing, shared by Starbucks Workers United on Twitter.
Hijackobin!
Our favorite hijacking movies.
Didion on the New Left
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.
How to Make the Internet a Truly Public Good
Four lessons from Ben Tarnoff’s Internet for the People.
It’s Bigger Than Amazon
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Voices From a Forgotten Revolution
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.
The Attack on Yemen’s Infrastructure — and the Humanitarian Disaster That Followed
Saudi planes have wreaked havoc on every part of Yemen.
Cuba’s Socialist Biotech
Despite sixty years of US blockade, Cuba continues its impressive medical research and development.
Hope You Like Swimming
While Congress stalled, the state of American infrastructure grew dire.
Where Ships Go to Die
You’ve probably never heard of one of the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs around.
How Inflation Made Its Comeback
After decades in hibernation, COVID has unleashed inflation once again. Before we can fight it, we need to understand it.
Twitter Owns Elon Musk
Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion. But he’s spent years producing value for the company as a humble content creator.