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Reductio ad Absurdum

Zero-Hours Contracts, Bogus ‘Self-Employment’, and Welfare ‘Conditionality’ in the UK

November 6, 2017 • by Christian Garland

Bogus ‘self-employment’, takes two main forms: the first is known as the ‘gig economy,’ and involves companies such as Uber, Deliveroo, and Hermes making use of the labor of those who are classified as ‘independent contractors’, rather than employees. The fact that these independent contractors earn less than the minimum ...

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Older Workers’ Gender Gap in Paid vs Unpaid Work Hurts Women’s Retirement Savings

October 2017 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

November 5, 2017 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

Both men and women ages 55-64 spend the same amount of time working each week -- 47.9 hours a week for men and 48 hours a week for women -- including both paid work in the labor market and unpaid household work. But of this total, men spend more time in ...

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Girl Scouts, #MeToo, and HIV/AIDS

Past Present Episode 104

November 4, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the Girl Scouts in light of the Boy Scouts’ recent decision to admit girls, #MeToo activism, and how Michael Friedman’s recent death of HIV/AIDS helps us understand the illness in historical context.

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The Times They Are a Changin’?

The Halloween Attack in New York and the Prospects for Democracy

November 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I hope that the global march of authoritarianism, with Donald Trump in the vanguard, is a momentary reaction that will be overwhelmed by a broad democratic front, one that rejects xenophobia, terror, irrationality and fear. But, I also know that the authoritarian turn, a radical reinvention of political culture, is ...

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Pentagon Anti-war March

50 years later Vietnam War protestors reunite

November 3, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

On October 21, 1967 some 50,000 people marched on the Pentagon to "Confront the Warmakers" about the War in Vietnam. Fifty years later about one hundred of them met in DC to commemorate the event. They began the evening of October 20 with a small rally in front of the Pentagon. After a couple speeches, ...

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Cultural Studies Threatened in Poland

An Interview with Ewa Majewska

November 2, 2017 • by McKenzie Wark

Ewa Majewska, could you first sketch out for me a little about your own work? I am a feminist philosopher who is currently working on theories of subaltern counter-publics in the peripheries, weak resistances, and the avant-gardes. I am also interested in the resistance to fascism, and for this some Habermassian belief ...

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terra nullius, Jules Ferry Calais

Readings and Exhibits to mark the First Anniversary of the Destruction of the Jungle

November 1, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

There are spaces outside memory that belong to no-one or to nature, and there are places cast out of memory and returned to nature or to no-one. Across them there is an order, an order that brings together in time the ground, the territory, the space, the place, the land, ...

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Who are the Rebels in the Catalan Democracy Crisis?

Evil is never obvious

November 1, 2017 • by Jordan Luber

Catalonia has 16% of Spain’s population. It accounts for 25% of its exports and 19% of the Spanish GDP. After Spain’s financial collapse in 2008, the secessionist movement began to gather steam, saying that Catalonia gives more money to Spain than it gets back.[1] In 2014 an unofficial, non-binding referendum ...

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What Cass Sunstein Gets Wrong About Marxism, Sanders, and American Politics

Heightening the Contradictions and Missing the Point

October 31, 2017 • by Jan Dutkiewicz and Andrew Norris

Sunstein mentions, in his lone footnote, that his account of Marx and Lenin’s views on “heightening the contradictions” is “a brisk summary of some famously complex and ambiguous arguments.” But the problem is not that his summary is overly brisk, but that it is fundamentally inaccurate and is used as ...

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The Manafort Indictment

Twelve Counts — and I’m Still Counting

October 31, 2017 • by Claire Potter

For those of us who have been waiting almost a year for some good news, yesterday's indictment of Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates was a real lift. The bonus news that someone who had been flying under the radar -- George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to the ...

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Thaler’s Nobel Does Not Challenge Mainstream Economics

Prizing nudges over shoves misjudges what we need right now

October 31, 2017 • by Eli Cook

Behavioral economics contends that economic agents -- contrary to orthodoxy theory -- do not always behave in ‘rational’ ways. Human beings base their decisions on "biases" or "heuristics." For example, behavioral economists argue that we tend to overvalue things we already own. This is known as an “endowment effect.” The experiments ...

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Lessons of Clandestine Organizations

Motivation and practice in the Weather Underground and Jane (a secret abortion network)

October 30, 2017 • by Jonathan Lerner

I spent the early Seventies in Chicago, not underground myself but as a secret operative of that organization. The Weather Underground was successfully keeping several dozen people hidden. Otherwise, we weren't actually doing much more than an occasional symbolic bombing of a corporate or governmental target. Our armed actions and ...