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What the Sharing Economy Takes

Uber and Airbnb monetize the desperation of people in the post-crisis economy while sounding generous—and evoke a fantasy of community in an atomized population.

Doug Henwood

Uber and the Taxi Industry’s Last Stand

What the rise of the app-based cab service says about the future of work in America

Jon Liss

Am I a ‘Radical’?

We can no longer hope to address the climate crisis, or our deep social ills, by working strictly within the system. We must change the system itself.

James Gustave Speth

Snapshot: A Disturbing ‘Breakthrough’

Manish Swarup

How the Roberts Supreme Court Has Strengthened the Powerful and Screwed Everyone Else

From criminal justice to workers’ and voting rights to campaign finance, it has defied customs that buttress the Court’s legitimacy.

Nan Aron, William Yeomans and Michelle D. Schwartz

What Syriza’s Victory Means for Greece—and for Europe

The election was a triumph for anti-austerity politics and a rejection of corruption. Now comes the hard part.

Maria Margaronis

Fox News: The World’s Comic Relief

Our friends abroad give the network the derision and the mockery it deserves.

Eric Alterman

The Spectacular Incoherence of Race Goes Global

From Ferguson to France, pliable racial categories are used to mark who counts as fully human—and who does not.

Patricia J. Williams

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Calvin Trillin

Latin Lives

Is the revival of a dead language breathing new life into the humanities?

Anthony Grafton

The Zeitgeist of No Zeitgeist

MoMA’s “Forever Now” trumpets art with a shallow sense of tradition.

Barry Schwabsky

Uncommon Catastrophes

Reconsidering how the Middle East was transformed by World War I.

Tom Finn

Return

Christopher Richards

Letters

Fantasy Island; voices of sanity; going beyond green; clicking for human rights; no tears for TNR…

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Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto