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Why We Lay Waste

Teresa Brennan’s theories used religion and psychoanalysis to explain affect, ecology, and economics

Our society seems to always choose non-renewable energy. Teresa Brennan uses psychoanalysis and religion to explain why.

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Front Pages Issue 2 Social Movements

My McUnion

A fast-food worker learns unionization tactics while working to organize their restaurant

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Consider the Dinosaur

Toward a philosophy of the asteroid

Dayton Martindale

Front Pages Issue 2 Profiles

Wobbly Economics – Part I

Why Frederic S Lee was the greatest economist you’ve never heard of

John Michael Colón

Back Pages Issue 2 Reviews

Chastening the Past

Indigenous critiques of gender and marriage go further than The Dawn of Everything

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Political Economy & Planning

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Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

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How They Paid for the War

Social democrats should fight climate change the way we fought the Axis Powers

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Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

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Do Interest Rate Hikes Worsen Inflation?

Central bankers want to pull on one lever to lower prices; history shows this might raise them

Front Pages Issue 1

John Michael Colón and Steve Mann

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

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Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

Profiles & Character Sketches

Love as a Verb

An anarchist reads bell hooks

Buy Boltcutters!

Robert Evans and journalism as activism

Places & Spaces

An Even Odyssey

A history of revolt in the East Village

The Illusion of a Renaissance

Jersey City’s political machine wants to push gentrification. Can there be another future?

On Work

It’s the Moral Economy, Stupid

The reason nobody wants to work anymore is no mystery

A Division of Labor

A science fiction TV drama explores questions of slavery and self in the workplace

A Pandemic Archive

Max Alvarez’s interviews record working-class perspectives on the age of COVID

Culture, High & Low

Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique

A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk

Figure and Frame

Safi Faye's films invert the ethnologer's gaze on rural life in Senegal

Retro Shock

When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?

No Such Thing as a Way Out

Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer portrays humanity at the end of history

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The Illusion of a Renaissance

Jersey City’s political machine wants to push gentrification. Can there be another future?

Sudip Bhattacharya

Jersey City's political machine hijacks diversity to push for rent hikes.

An Historiography of Anarchism

Global anarchist history reveals the fundamental unity of the tradition, along with its key lines of debate and disagreement

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Futon

Cryptid

Toledo, OH | USA

Let me tell you the tale of the Toledo, OH cryptid.

European Friendsgiving

New York, NY | USA

Our much-anticipated Friendsgiving involves a twelve-person guestlist—I am the last to arrive. 12 freshly immigrated souls, left behind by their American peers who all (well, almost all) traveled home for the first time since summer.

Socks

Rural Oklahoma|USA

I had been working at this private hospital for about nine months when I broke.

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Seeing and Believing

Finding faith at Ark Encounter

Nathan Hilgartner

Nothing can prepare you for your first glimpse of the Ark.

Dream City

Drifting through the city with Modiano and the Situationists

Back Pages Online Reporting

We Were All Palestinians, Weren’t We?

The view from Palestine on Israel’s new protest movement

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