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The Care Factory
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
Profiting in Nowhereland
The sordid histories behind Texas’s industrial-scale immigration detention center.
First Day of School in South Rimal
Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.
What We Call Progress
Can we still imagine change for the better? Critical theorist Rahel Jaeggi tries in her new book.
The Kitchen Tables Behind Mamdani’s Kitchen-Table Strategy
Staging sites aren’t new to political campaigns, but they’ve never been done like this before.
The Conservatives Who Think Trump Isn’t Going Far Enough
MAGA’s base is more fractured than it looks.
What Are We Living Through?
Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.
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What does it mean to say that slavery was “dehumanizing”? Not much, Walter Johnson suspects. Connecting theoretical shortfalls with ethical ones, Johnson sheds new light on the purpose and poverty of rights discourse, the fruitfulness of the analytic of racial capitalism, and the centrality of the revolutionary thought and actions of Black resisters themselves to a theory of racial justice.
—Lily Hu on “To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice” (2016), a forum led by Walter Johnson
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“Walid is lucky that his dad can afford to pay for any kind of kindergarten at all, while hundreds of thousands of children are on the streets.”
—Rami Abu Jamous, “First Day of School in South Rimal”
“The first ICE inspection report on Camp East Montana revealed a litany of abuses: makeshift construction, broken sinks and toilets, flooded cells, insufficient food, lost medical records, negligent medical treatment.”
—Honora Spicer, “Profiting in Nowhereland”
“The right’s war on the academy and education is part of a generational war over what young people, especially young white people, will be taught and how they will be socialized.”
—Cathy J. Cohen, “Building a Political Home”
“The way we lived with each other before involved exactly the ‘social shame and cultural pressure’ that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn.”
—Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, “How Can We Live Together?”
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