• In the Boston Review, Amy Dean writes on transportation justice, the disproportionate impacts of fee hikes, and growing alliances between low-income communities and labor.
• Regicide watch: the Brits were outraged by something Hilary Mantel wrote about Kate Middleton, but Laurie Penny’s take on the scrounging royalty really lets them have it.
• In response to Yale’s announcement of a partnership with the Department of Defense to conduct interrogation research on the local immigrant community, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein writes about the university’s history of collaboration with the security state.
• Susie Cagle recaps last weekend’s anti-Keystone protest and takes a look at what it revealed about the state of the environmental movement.
• Kate Upton explains the sequester, comes out for the revolutionary left.
• You’ve read Andrew Hartman’s TFA takedown; now read Valerie Strauss on why she won’t let TFA recruits in her classroom.
• In a New York Times op-ed last Sunday, Stephanie Coontz pointed out that intensifying work is bad for gender equity; this week, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg launches a “movement” telling women to work harder — no surprise if you read Sarah Leonard’s piece on Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer in our most recent issue.
• Oscar voters are — surprise! — almost entirely old white men; no wonder only three of this year’s best picture nominees pass the Bechdel test.
• As if capital punishment wasn’t bad enough, death row inmates are routinely subjected to torture, Rania Khalek contends.
• From the MIA: Barbara Ehrenreich’s “What is Socialist Feminism?”
• G. A. Cohen makes the case against capitalism.