The Argument / September 5, 2023 On Gentrification, We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About Rather than understand gentrification as a systemic issue, the term has simply become an insult people throw around. Kate Wagner Ad Policy A “For Lease” sign on a storefront in the Loop neighborhood of Chicago on Friday, May 12, 2023….
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World Today 9:43 am Advocates for Negotiations to End the Ukraine War Need to Come Out of the Closet Advocates for Negotiations to End the Ukraine War Need to Come Out of the Closet A brutal and interminable stalemate is forcing a foreign policy reset. Jeet Heer September 5, 2023 US President Joe Biden and…
1 hour ago About sharing By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Top boss of NHS complaints in England has told the BBC he wants Martha’s rule to be introduced to give patients the power to get an automatic second medical opinion about hospital care, when they think things are going wrong. Rob Behrens said he…
6 minutes ago About sharing Sara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August By Carrie Davies in Islamabad BBC News The father of Sara Sharif claimed his daughter’s death was an accident, the 10-year-old’s grandfather has said. In an interview with the BBC, Muhammad Sharif – the father of Urfan…
Class Notes / September 5, 2023 How Inequality Was Redefined as “Poverty”—Letting Capitalism Off the Hook In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility. Adolph Reed Jr. Ad Policy Inner-city residents stand on line at a Ford Motor Company hiring center. (Getty) This article…
Forever Wars / September 5, 2023 US Foreign Policy Has an Extinction Agenda As the world loses time to act, US elites are working to dominate the remains of a ruined planet. Spencer Ackerman Ad Policy All that’s necessary for a future uninhabitable for much of humanity is for things to continue as they are….
Poems / September 5, 2023 Xenotransplantation Sam Sax Ad Policy This article appears in the September 18/25, 2023 issue. my friend’s got a pig heart in him. my friend’s got part of a pig’s heart, a piece, his heart’s part pig. the aortic valve is the dog-god guarding the tube blood runs through once it’s…
Deadline Poet / September 5, 2023 Ramaswamy Calvin Trillin Ad Policy Vivek Ramaswamy, 2024 Republican presidential candidate, during the Republican primary presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wis., on August 23, 2023. (Al Drago / Getty) This article appears in the September 18/25, 2023 issue. This Ramaswamy fellow in debate Is like that kid in school who…
Books & the Arts / September 5, 2023 The Senator Who Took On the CIA Frank Church and the committee that investigated the US intelligence agencies. Adam Hochschild Ad Policy Illustration by Lily Qian. This article appears in the September 18/25, 2023 issue. On November 3, 1791, in what today is western Ohio, some 1,400…