From Erdoğan’s Turkey to Trump’s America

What we can learn from a parallel history

In 2002, voters in Turkey—reeling from an economic crisis that halved the value of the Turkish lira and produced a 7.5 percent drop in GDP—elected a new party by a plurality: 34.3 percent of the vote.  Though hardly a resounding mandate, the margin enabled the party, an Islamist offshoot led by ...
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From Erdoğan’s Turkey to Trump’s America

You Are Entitled to Live Your Own Life—If Your Employer Allows It

How the business of cobbling together a living became a new form of unpaid labor

I know someone, a nurse, who doesn’t have health insurance. His employer, a staffing agency, bounces him from assignment to assignment—sometimes with only a day’s notice. Engaged in skilled care work that is profoundly dependent on the ability to maintain human relationships, he often finds himself treated more like a ...
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You Are Entitled to Live Your Own Life—If Your Employer Allows It