Week of September 30

• Capitalism
  China’s Thirty-Year War between State and Capital Has Taken a Decisive Turn

  Mark Frazier

  Codirector of the India China Institute and Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research
• Politics
  Goodbye Merkel, Hello … Who?

  Nicolas Allié

  The New School for Social Research visiting student from TU Dresden, Germany
  Never-Trumpers Keep Insisting that Reaganism Was Not Demagoguery—It Was

  Claire Potter

  Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
• Literature
  What Happens to “Black Woman Number Two” in a White Workplace?

  Zakiya Dalila Harris and Zia Jaffrey
  The Other Black Girl

  Zakiya Dalila Harris

  Author, The Other Black Girl
  Meaty Pleasures

  Mónica Lavín and Dorothy Potter Snyder
• Classics Reconsidered
  A Displaced Worker in a World of Goods

  Steven Stoll

  Professor of history at Fordham University and author of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
• Our Columnists
  Battle of the Budget

  Heather Cox Richardson

  Professor of History, Boston College
  Democrats and the Conservative Supreme Court

  John Stoehr 

  Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board
  Facebook’s Data Center Fluff

  Pat Garofalo

  Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project