The US Needs “Eureka!” Moments: On Vetting, Displacement, Discernment, and Integration
Gary Corseri returns to The Star with this piece on how to use your built-in crap detector on the political sloganeering of today.
Someone, Please, Make it About Something
On the palimpsest of life. Poetry by Pam Carter.
The Continuing Attack on Workers’ Rights: The Janus Case
Dean Baker surveys the latest legal attack on unions and workers’ rights.
History in the Age of the Internet: Setting the Record Straight on Dan Ireland
Film historian Dennis Nyback sets the record straight on Dan Ireland’s death.
Sunday Comics
It’s time to make a mountain out of a molehill, so can I have a volunteer? There’s no more time for reading Sunday Comics, now it’s time for crying in your beer. Settle down, raise a family, join the PTA. Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet; then party ’til you’re broke and they drag you away…It’s OK, you can dare (to be stupid)!
When International Institutions Get it Oh-So-Wrong, We Must Wake Up
Don’t rely on international organizations to think for you. Silvia Swinden writes.
Priceless Moments: How Capitalism Eats Our Time
Maria Askew considers how MasterCard moments have replaced leisure.
Privacy for Whom?
On the subject of how privacy has always been reserved for the non-poor. Sam Adler-Bell reviews two books, Automating Inequality and The Poverty of Privacy Rights.
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