capitalism
Resistance, the unverifiable, and the horse in Ali Smith’s ‘Gliff’
June 16, 2026Smith argues that defiance is a persistent, improvised salving: tending wounds, remembering the erased, and walking north toward the unverifiable.
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Behold the U.S.’s 250th birthday, brought to you by corporate behemoths, via Trump
June 15, 2026Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project accuse the Trump administration of “engaging in a hostile takeover of the nation’s 250th anniversary.”
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‘Welcome to class warfare’: My half-century as a reporter covering the coal miners
June 12, 2026Coal miners are locked in the class struggle at the heart of the system of capitalist exploitation.
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No one pees for free! ‘Urinetown’ a hit in Washington
June 3, 2026In satire, fictional actions are an exaggeration of reality, but these days, the behavior of the billionaire elite is so extreme and absurd that it rivals anything a writer can imagine.
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The Trump effect: The white supremacist view of tolerance
June 3, 2026For over a decade, a schoolyard bully has occupied the nation's collective consciousness.
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