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Built for a Supervillain
Jacobin ranks the all-time best James Bond villain secret lairs.
A Stunning New Chapter Begins for Amazon Warehouse Workers
In a staggering upset, Staten Island Amazon workers just won a union election. It’s the start of a new chapter for workers at one of the world’s most powerful companies
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.
On Canceling Writers
While certain writers or texts might fall afoul of polite society today, great writing can and will never stay canceled.
Palaces of Shelter
The metros in Kyiv and Kharkiv — Soviet-era “palaces of the people” — have doubled as bomb shelters during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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.
Sports Are Sinking in Crypto Snake Oil
The crypto takeover of European football promises to empower supporters — but in truth, it’s just marketing fluff for a giant pyramid scheme.
57,000 Channels and There’s Nothing On
American TV once threatened to become radical and strange through the proliferation of local stations. But it wouldn’t be allowed to last.