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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Lauren Fadiman |Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson |John Ross
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2025 Jan/Feb Details The refusal to pay taxes has been a powerful form of resistance against war and imperialism in North America since before the United States even existed. It may provide a potential mode of resistance against American funding for violence in Gaza, too.
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2 months ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Arjun S. Byju |Lauren Fadiman |Lily Sánchez
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 Nov/Dec Details The idea that one might magically manifest wealth is an old one. In today's unequal society, 'manifesting' tells us to double down on ourselves instead of working to create a more egalitarian society.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
haleynahman.substack.com | Lauren Fadiman |Haley Nahman
Good morning!I’m trying something different for this round of Dear Baby. Instead of answering three reader questions at once, I’m going to be answering one reader question, three weeks in a row, using each as an opportunity to write an essay that touches on something I’ve been wanting to write about anyway. Thank god for your perfect questions. This week, I’m exploring what to do with all our envy. “Haley, I’m struggling so much with envy that I can barely find space in my mind for other things.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Lauren Fadiman |Nathan J. Robinson |Ciara Moloney
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 May/June Details The surveillance state always hurts dissidents most of all. We shouldn't neglect the importance of constraining its power. Since the height of the Cold War, the United States has championed capitalist society as the only one to value privacy.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Lily Sánchez |Nathan J. Robinson |Lauren Fadiman
It was September 1960, less than two years after Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista had been overthrown by Fidel Castro’s revolutionary forces.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Stephen Prager |Lauren Fadiman |Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson
Jonah Walters gives a rundown of Kissinger's career, explaining what makes him an important figure. The day Henry Kissinger died, Jacobin magazine released a book, which they had completed years before, called The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger.In the book, edited by René Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Jonah Walters, a group of foreign policy experts trace Kissinger's career from continent to continent, showing the human consequences of his Machiavellian choices.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Lauren Fadiman |Nathan J. Robinson
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 Mar/Apr Details Children's liberation movements have challenged the notion that limited responsibilities for young people must come with limited rights.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Lauren Fadiman
In October 30, 1971, the front page of the Augusta Chronicle ran an article on the decline of the New Left side by side with a report on a “modern Pentecost” sweeping the nation. The placement was fitting: hippies and Yippies alike competed over middle-class youths who had breathed the heady air of Haight-Ashbury and […]
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Lauren Fadiman
The highway to Wisteria Campground curves blindly in the telltale fashion of an old dirt road repurposed to suit the demanding pace of modern life. Round one such corner and a sign emerges in the tree line: democrats destroying america, it declares, god help us. Below it, Smokey the Bear politely asks for help preventing wildfires.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Lauren Fadiman
I walked to New York Comic Con along the High Line, a Manhattan rail-track-turned-greenway lined by the kind of futuristic architecture only the truly wealthy can afford. Perhaps the most famous of these is the building at 520 West 28th Street, a fluid, curvilinear glass-and-steel structure designed by Zaha Hadid, in her hallmark parametric style — […]
