June 2018 Volume 42, Issue 06

June 2018

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Viewpoint

The GOP Wants To Open the American Dream to the Poor, By Taking Away Their Food Joel Bleifuss

Before Bernie, There Was Jesse Salim Muwakkil

Why Keith Ellison and Jeremy Corbyn Think We Should Cap CEO Pay Dayton Martindale

Does Post-Human Mean Part-Plant? A Look Inside a Fungal Utopia. Sasha Kramer

Want To Know How To Fix Facebook? Listen to Black Twitter. Kimberly C. Ellis

Inside the Closed Facebook Groups Where the Teacher Strikes Began Lois Weiner

We’re All Zucked Jacob Silverman

These Statistics Show Why Gazans Are Risking Their Lives To Protest Israel Sasha Kramer

Why This Iraq War Vet Is Speaking Out Against Trump’s Reckless Foreign Policy Tanner Howard

Feature

YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Housing Crisis Toshio Meronek

A Democratic Spring: 12 Left Challengers Taking On the Party Establishment in 2018 Theo Anderson

Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork Dayton Martindale

Dispatch

Big Coal Is Using This Small Oklahoma Town as a Toxic Waste Dump Valerie Vande Panne

At the University of Montana, You Must Pass an Anti-Rape Test Before You Register Gabriel Furshong

How a Wave of New Voters Could Take Out Scott Walker in 2018 Michael Leon

Serfdom in the Magic Kingdom: Disney Workers Rise Up Against Poverty Wages Bryce Covert

Culture

We’re Still Locking Up the Mentally Ill Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Work Couldn’t Come at a Better Time Lauren Michele Jackson

YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Housing Crisis

Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them—and shower them with cash.

Toshio Meronek

A Democratic Spring: 12 Left Challengers Taking On the Party Establishment in 2018

The scattering of challenges to the Democratic establishment after Bernie Sanders’ run has become a tidal wave.

Theo Anderson

Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork

In his new book, the anarchist and anthropologist looks at why almost 40 percent of us think our jobs are meaningless.

Dayton Martindale

The GOP Wants To Open the American Dream to the Poor, By Taking Away Their Food

By cutting food stamps and instituting work-for-food requirements, Republicans say they are creating a land of opportunity.

We’re Still Locking Up the Mentally Ill

When the only prescription is jail time.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Before Bernie, There Was Jesse

For a brief moment 30 years ago, it looked like our first black president would be the leader of a multiracial working-class coalition.

Big Coal Is Using This Small Oklahoma Town as a Toxic Waste Dump

Now residents are fighting back.

Valerie Vande Panne

Why Keith Ellison and Jeremy Corbyn Think We Should Cap CEO Pay

Does it make sense for a boss to earn more than 200 times what a worker does? The case for a maximum wage.

Dayton Martindale

At the University of Montana, You Must Pass an Anti-Rape Test Before You Register

After Jon Krakauer exposed a rape epidemic, the university embarked on a radical experiment in stopping sexual assault.

Gabriel Furshong

Does Post-Human Mean Part-Plant? A Look Inside a Fungal Utopia.

An artist asks what becoming one with nature could look like.

How a Wave of New Voters Could Take Out Scott Walker in 2018

Thanks to increased voter registration efforts, Democrats may be able to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker this fall.

Want To Know How To Fix Facebook? Listen to Black Twitter.

For years, Black people have been the canaries in the coal mine for social media abuses.

Kimberly C. Ellis

Inside the Closed Facebook Groups Where the Teacher Strikes Began

How Facebook helped make the wave of teachers’ strikes possible.

We’re All Zucked

Tepid regulations aren’t enough to break Facebook’s hold on our personal data.

Jacob Silverman

Serfdom in the Magic Kingdom: Disney Workers Rise Up Against Poverty Wages

The happiest place on earth pays so little that some of its workers are homeless.

These Statistics Show Why Gazans Are Risking Their Lives To Protest Israel

The humanitarian crisis and the current death toll.

Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Work Couldn’t Come at a Better Time

In Barracoon, published 58 years after her death, the Harlem Renaissance writer interviews the last known survivor of a slave ship.

Lauren Michele Jackson

Why This Iraq War Vet Is Speaking Out Against Trump’s Reckless Foreign Policy

To expand the anti-war movement, Maggie Martin is connecting struggles against U.S. militarism at home and abroad.

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