Google and the Liberal Man’s Burden
As Silicon Valley is learning, “pinkwashing” is the perfect tool for political misdirection.
19148 Articles by: Abigail Torre
Abigail Torre grew up in Chile and now lives in Berkeley, California where she is cochair of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.
A Brazilian Autumn?: An Interview with Miguel Borba de Sa
The movement is battlefield, highlighting all the contradictions of Brazilian society.
On Anger and “Meaning It”
There’s no need for excessive complexity — some people are worth hating.
From Turkey with Love
The protests in Turkey are, quite simply, an assertion of humanity in the face of inhumanity.
I Love Man of Steel and I’m Not Sorry
In Man of Steel, Superman returns to his Popular Front roots.
Back to No Future
What use is playing the long game when the arc of the universe feels so frighteningly short?
DNA: A Parasite that Builds Its Own Host?
Dawkins, the mechanistic world, and the “war on the beautiful”
Sympathy for Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman takes up the banner of the Luddites. Here’s what he gets wrong.
What is Union Democracy?
Bob Fitch on the Left, the Right, and what a real labor movement would look like.
Ashwin Parameswaran and the Future of Work
A discussion with Ashwin Parameswaran.
David Brooks: The Last Stalinist
David Brooks disapproves of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
Reform and Revolution
A recorded interview at this year’s Subversive Festival in Zagreb.
Two Gay Weddings
The Argentine gay rights movement also fought for marriage equality. Why has it been so much more radical than the American one?
Hardhats and Hippies: An Interview with Penny Lewis
In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by the privileged, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers supported the war effort. That memory is wrong.
Conflict-Averse Liberals
A conflict-averse person is OK; a conflict-averse politics is not.
Surrealism for Social Change
A review of Ben Katchor’s Hand-Drying in America.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: A User’s Guide
Everything you need to know about Toronto’s awful mayor.
Gatsby and the Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is more faithful to the themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby than Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaption.
Curious Utopias
A Universal Basic Income may not be much of a utopia in itself, but it points in surprisingly radical directions.