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Sam Gindin on why unions need a left • Christy Thornton on NYU, the corporate university, and the union difference • Mark Fisher on identitarianism, and depressive hedonia • George Scialabba on democracy & plutocracy • Jennifer Silva on the consciousness of younger working-class adults • Heidi Shierholz on what has and hasn’t been driving wage inequality • Richard Seymour on the politics of austerity in the UK • Arun Gupta on what's behind the fast food labor campaignMax Blumenthal on post-democratic Israel • Michelle Chen on how drug companies screw the sick with patents • Mark Ames on libertarianism and the Koch Bros. • Bruce Bartlett on the GOP crazies • Isaac Martin on the history of rich people’s movements • Jodi Dean on the need for a left party • Kashama Sawant on her socialist campaign for Seattle city council • Daniel Denvir on the crisis in Philadelphia public schools • Jonathan Crary on the ill effects of always-on, 24/7 culture• Sanjay Reddy on the Indian economy • Jesse Walker on conspiracy & American paranoia • Greg Shupak on Libya • Monica Potts on poor white women • Gayatri Spivak on Gramsci • Mariana Mazzucato on state-sponsored technological change • Anna Allanbrook on education, progressive and otherwise • Darius Charney on stop & frisk • Philip Mirowski on the durable ideology of neoliberalism • Tom Sugrue on the history of Detroit’s decline • Al Blumstein on crime and punishment stats • Penny Lewis on hardhats, hippies, and the Vietnam War • Kathi Weeks on the problem with work • Steve Horn on the Obama-linked foundation at the core of the school privatization agenda • Gilbert Achcar on Egypt • Adolph Reed on the new generation of (neoliberal) black politicians • Rachel Kushner on The Flamethrowers • Mark Mizruchi on the rot of the corporate class • Chase Madar on Bradley Manning & Edward Snowden • Mark Dery on glam rock • Alan Finlayson on Bonoism • Betsy Hartmann on Malthusianism • Sungur Savran on Turkey • Lee Badgett on LGB poverty • Harry Browne on the dreadful Bono • Eamonn Fingleton on Japan • David Cay Johnston on the IRS scandal • Richard Katz on Abenomics • Barbara Garson on coping with recession and decline • Corey Robin on reaction • Mark Blyth on austerity • Alex Vitale on the militarization of the cops • Josh Eidelson on worker actions in fast food and against Walmart • Minqi Li on the Chinese economy • George Ciccariello-Maher on the movements that Hugo Chavez both emerged from and enabled • Tom Mills and Richard Seymour talk (unkindly) about the legacy of Margaret Thatcher • Kate Losse on Sheryl Sandberg’s feminism and the meaning of Facebook • Ahmad Shokr on Egypt’s economy • Terry Kupers on the psychological effects of prison • Haley Sweetland Edwards on how Wall Street took over Dodd-Frank • Yanis Varoufakis on the economies of Australia, Cyprus, and Greece• Jonathan Westin on organizing fast food workers in NYC • Özgür Orhangazi and George Ciccariello-Maher on Venezuela under Chávez • Robert Gordon on the end of growth • Adolph Reed on some recent “race” movies • Barbara Fields on racecraft, the American ideology of race • Diana Furchtgott-Roth on the virtues of immigration • Joel Schalit on the complexities of sanctioning Israel, and the rise of theo-fascism there • Helaine Olen on the personal finance scam • Heidi Shierholz on wage polarization • Natasha Lennard on Aaron Swartz & prosecutorial abuse • Nikhil Goyal on the school reform racket • Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin on the American empire (encore presentation) • Sarah Jaffe class angles femnism • Greg Grandin on Chavez, Venezuela, and LatAm social democracy....

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Beastly numbers How do you explain educational outcomes? Poverty, mostly.

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Old world, new crisis The EU melodrama