"Biden’s targeted loan forgiveness will help, not harm, the economy."

>"As progressives debate whether or not to celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act, let’s take a moment to remember Build Back Better: universal pre-K, paid family and medical leave, free community college. It’s all been taken away — and _...Read More_

>"Many Afrikaners welcomed the end of apartheid, but 30 years on, they’ve found Black-majority rule in South Africa hard to live with."

"Rushing in to confront a crisis is always better than letting it simply unfold."

>"Interest rates were low for years. Imagine how much the country could have gotten done."

"A look at the grim scenarios—and the U.S. playbook for each"

“Dig deeper into the subject of this week’s cartoon: The Republicans are still Donald Trump’s party, and they can still win _...Read More_

"Looking for something other than sappy Christmas movies to watch over the holidays? There is no greater and more prescient skewering of the absurdity of the American national security state than Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head Do _...Read More_

"How Domestic Labor Robs Women of Their Love from Boston Review. Netflix’s ‘Maid’ and three recent best-sellers depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the _...Read More_

>"Hollywood is back in full swing, grinding those behind the scenes down to the bone. Can a new union contract fix that?"

"American elites want magical technological fixes to climate change because they refuse to confront the truth that seriously addressing the problem would require limits to their own power and luxury."

"When stay-at-home orders went into effect in the spring of 2020, confined to my Oakland neighborhood while caring for an infant and teaching remotely, I started an ethnographic project close to home."