W. Scott Poole
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. Scott Poole
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Opinion
Race for the center? The Democratic Party can’t forget the working class…again
November 16, 2020There’s a folk saying in the American South that “being in the middle of the road either makes you a yellow line or roadkill.”
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Arts
Is capitalism burying Mexico’s Day of the Dead?
October 31, 2019When this system is gone, its ravages complete, no one will build an ofrenda for it. No one will mourn it. No one will plant marigolds for capital.
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World
Selling Frida Kahlo: Commodifying an artist in Mexico City and the world
October 18, 2019There’s much more to the commodification of Frida Kahlo than some kind of apolitical girl power sensationalism.
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World
Springtime for fascism: a global struggle
October 25, 2018Bolsonaro, an Army captain, has praised the use of torture during the years of the junta, only suggesting that leftist critics of the regime should have been killed rather than simply maimed.
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Opinion
Why U.S. client state Saudi Arabia escapes the Muslim ban
July 2, 2018How did the country that was the home of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda not make it onto the list of banned Muslim nations?
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Culture
‘Hereditary’: The horror of privilege
June 19, 2018No one will call Hereditary, the directorial debut of Ari Aster, a simple haunted house story.
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Opinion
Employment numbers and criminal regimes
June 13, 2018It's astonishing, and would confuse classical liberal economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo, that low unemployment coincides with so little growth in wages.
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World
Seeing socialist Cuba with a critical eye
November 16, 2017I sought to experience Cuba in a way that would absolve me of the charge of red romanticism. What I found instead was a people bound together by a Cuban identity forged by the revolution.
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