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Capitalism's Washing Machine
How the working class undermines itself with its own money.
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Hamilton Nolan
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Whose Fault Is It?
Unifying around the class war is an enormous opportunity for the Democratic Party
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Hamilton Nolan
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The Cost of Strikes
Ask instead: What is the cost of not striking?
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Who Is Your Enemy, My Brother?
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You Have to Grind This Motherfucker Down
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Insurance Politics at the End of the World
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These Vampires Can Have Everything Except Our Love
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The Cannibal South
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What Republicans Plan to Do to Labor If They Win
Forget slogans. Here are the actual, awful policy proposals.
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Nihilistic Poll Brained Celebration of Nothingness
A short discussion of why most political media coverage is bad.
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Talk Louder About Defunding the Police
Don't let bad faith cowards control the discourse about a good policy.
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Housing Is a Labor Issue
Landlords are taking all our wage gains. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Hamilton Nolan
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Life as Grist For the AI Mill
One reporter confronts the algorithmic maw
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Dave Infante
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The Cannibal South
An inferiority complex-ridden region depends on eating its own.
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People Don't Know Anything About the Government
Stop pretending voters have actual opinions about all of these agencies.
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