A dictatorship of billionaires—the Bezos, Musks, Soon-Shiongs of the world—ostensibly rules the lives of workers whose wages stagnate, if they’re not fired first.
Category Archive: class
Maybe information itself is more pernicious than the dis- or mis- varieties. The glut of facts can feel—in their sheer impenetrable volume—anxious-making, anomic, and numbing
The history of television, Jeff Bridges, and Amazon’s propaganda machine.
An alternate reality is hiding in your tiny streaming box.
In a time of revolutionary change, the wet socks of the past are still piled higher and heavier on our chests. Yet politics is back at square one.
In the time of COVID, we are all married to each other. But some of our spouses are sociopaths.
Mindy Kaling’s new Netflix series raises a vexing question: even if we agree that representation matters, what counts as good representation?
Why are certain stories and storytellers amplified while others are ignored or silenced?