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“Honestly, everything is not burning”: An interview with Dr. Danielle Kilgo
Dr. Danielle Kilgo studies media portrayals of social movements. Journalists, Kilgo finds, wield immense power when it comes to how protests are perceived by the public. By choosing what stories focus on—for instance, prioritizing dramatic arrests over the demands and agendas of protesters—journalists contribute to a public’s understanding of the legitimacy of uprisings such as...
Washington Post public editor: Jeff Bezos could solve pay equality tomorrow. He makes token gestures instead.
We are living in a time of unprecedented corporate insincerity. It rises in tandem with the sincerity of the protesters in the street. The name of the game for big companies and chief executives, in times like these, is to give the appearance of being on the side of the public while avoiding doing anything...
Praising Arizona
In 1921, when Arizona was less than a decade old and had fewer residents than Newark, New Jersey, the state’s department of roads was directed to put out a magazine. While the legislation that apportioned funds for the publication, titled Arizona Highways, imagined that it would “encourage travel to and through the state of Arizona,”...
America’s labor crises hit a depleted beat
A normal day of reporting on labor in America is busy. But these are not normal days. Precarious labor conditions under the Trump administration—including the repeal of the Fair Play and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, the appointment of a corporate-friendly labor secretary, and numerous other anti-worker policies—have turned catastrophic. Since mid-March, one in five Americans...
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists may be the only outlet whose approach to climate change is explicitly existential
In November, just before I went to see Jerry Brown at the annual meeting of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, some eleven thousand climate experts signed a statement declaring “clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate...
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