After 2020, There’s No Going Back to the Old America

Coronavirus has brought the United States to its knees not only due to our system’s countless weaknesses, but also because of our delusional self-assessment. Despite all evidence to the contrary, many believed that this country was invincible. That fantasy has been destroyed.

Modi Is Making Dissent in India a Crime

Narendra Modi’s government is clamping down on political dissent as part of its Hindu-nationalist project. The Indian authorities have used bogus charges of “terrorism” and “conspiracy” to keep critical intellectuals locked up for years at a time.

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Workplace “Anti-Racism Trainings” Aren’t Helping

Donald Trump hysterically considers it a Marxist plot, but corporate “anti-racism training” isn’t a practice that anyone should defend. It doesn’t actually combat racism and it helps bosses consolidate their power over employees under a veneer of social justice.

The Labor Abuses of Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres’s reputation as the kindest celebrity in America has finally been shattered. But it’s not just her “mean streak” that’s the problem — it’s that she’s an exploitative boss, who cheated her employees at the height of the pandemic.

Centrists Are Pining for a Golden Age that Never Was

As the political center has withered in recent years, self-described moderates have often expressed nostalgia for the “normal” politics of the 1990s. But the era of Blair and Clinton really wasn’t a golden age of progress — and it brought a wave of market fundamentalism still sowing havoc today.

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