Minimum Wage in China: Zero
Reading Time: 17 minutes Brutal slave labor in China is responsible for many of our daily consumer products. And global corporations collaborating with the Chinese government know all about it — and profit from it.
It’s a Small World After All
Reading Time: 21 minutes A new wave of international films is sweeping the globe. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Apple+, and Disney+ are not only changing the way we view films, they are changing the way we see the world.
Was Trump a Russian Asset?
Reading Time: 14 minutes Author and investigative journalist Craig Unger thinks he has found the unified field theory behind the Trump-Russia connection — and why Trump is still a security risk.
Eddie Glaude Jr., James Baldwin, and Black History
Reading Time: 15 minutes Why is achieving racial equality so hard? Princeton’s Chair of the Department of African American Studies shows us why, through the lens of James Baldwin.
Why Populism Is Toxic
Reading Time: 18 minutes How economic populism grew into a toxic stew of resentment, nationalism, racism — and the bloody riot of January 6, 2021.
Trump’s Pardon Shakedown
Reading Time: 18 minutes A personal look inside the final days and multimillion-dollar shakedowns of the Trump pardon process.
Josh Hawley Told Us Who He Was
Reading Time: 2 minutes A look at how religious nationalism — more than politics — spurred the events of January 6.
Unity Is Probably Impossible
Reading Time: 16 minutes A look at why facts, data, and truth have little to do with what we believe.
Why Is the US Senate So F**ked Up?
Reading Time: 20 minutes Why the US Senate is no longer “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” and where it went wrong.
The New Color Purple
Reading Time: 19 minutes As tech companies move from blue states to blue cities inside red states, what are the long-term political consequences?