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5 days ago | 
portside.org | Naomi Klein |Astra Taylor
The Rise of End Times Fascism Published April 18, 2025 The movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own high-tech fiefdoms, whether new countries on artificial islands in international waters (“seasteading”) or pro-business “freedom cities” such as Próspera, a glorified gated community combined with a wild west med spa on a Honduran island.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Naomi Klein |Astra Taylor
The movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own high-tech fiefdoms, whether new countries on artificial islands in international waters (“seasteading”) or pro-business “freedom cities” such as Próspera, a glorified gated community combined with a wild west med spa on a Honduran island.
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2 weeks ago | 
the.ink | Anand Giridharadas |Astra Taylor |Liz Plank
Millions of people, in 1,400 cities and towns in red and blue districts across the United States, turned out this past weekend for the “Hands Off!” protests. We just asked Astra Taylor and Liz Plank — both of them brilliant authors, activists, and organizers — what comes next? Taylor and Plank (and the 2,100 viewers who joined us live) had plenty of ideas of where pro-democracy organizers need to put their energy going forward to build a movement with the power to change things.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebaffler.com | André Naffis-Sahely |Astra Taylor
Once upon a time, in what some calendars called the 1950s, there lived a young prince named Jigme Singye Wangchuck, whose father ruled over Bhutan, a maze of glacial valleys in the Himalayas almost perfectly isolated from events down below.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebaffler.com | Ranbir Sidhu |Astra Taylor |Quinn Slobodian |Jessa Crispin
A year ago, I took a friend visiting from California to a casual mixer at a rooftop bar in Athens, Greece, where I live. The mixer was arranged by the local chapter of Democrats Abroad, a get-out-the-vote organization for expat Americans in Europe. With drinks in hand and the sun setting on the Parthenon in the distance, we pushed ourselves into the knot of Americans at the far end of the patio.
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4 weeks ago | 
inthesetimes.com | Naomi Klein |Astra Taylor |Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |Chenjerai Kumanyika
About a month after Donald Trump was inaugurated to a second term, and as it became overwhelmingly clear that Elon Musk’s role alongside him is to gut the administrative state and pave the way for widespread privatization, Haymarket Books held “An Emergency Town Hall” to help situate this “Corporate Coup in Global Context.” The roundtable discussion included bestselling journalist and author Naomi Klein, who is known for many books, including The Shock Doctrine, No Logo and Doppleganger;...
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2 months ago | 
bignewsnetwork.com | Astra Taylor
This January, the world watched as Los Angeles burned. "I've never seen anything like this," one police chief told reporters, a sentiment echoed by front-line firefighters. Last fall, hurricanes Helene and Milton swept through North Carolina and Florida. The storms' intensity and record-breaking fatalities, exacerbated by climate change, blindsided many inhabitants.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Astra Taylor
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Astra Taylor |Eleni Schirmer
When the Titanic crashed into a wall of ice at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, it had been warned seven times about the danger that lay waiting ahead. Yet those in charge did not alter course. When the ship hit the iceberg as predicted, the crew had mere minutes to concoct a plan capable of redeeming even some of that lost time. Their efforts were not wholly in vain; nearly a third of the passengers survived—famously, the wealthiest ones.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Astra Taylor |Eleni Schirmer
When the Titanic crashed into a wall of ice at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, it had been warned seven times about the danger that lay waiting ahead. Yet those in charge did not alter course. When the ship hit the iceberg as predicted, the crew had mere minutes to concoct a plan capable of redeeming even some of that lost time. Their efforts were not wholly in vain; nearly a third of the passengers survived—famously, the wealthiest ones.
