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The Betrayal of Public Workers
The Betrayal of Public Workers
It’s not only bad politics for states to use budget crises to bust unions—it’s also bad economics.
Indignez-vous!
Indignez-vous!
In the first English translation of a cri de coeur that has topped bestseller lists for months in France, the 93-year-old hero of the French Resistance urges a new generation to renew the struggle for social justice.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Transition
The Muslim Brotherhood in Transition
Far from being a monolith, the Ikhwan, as it is known in Arabic, is well scored by demographic and ideological fault lines.
A Time for Resistance
A Time for Resistance
Protests in Cairo and Wisconsin—and Stéphane Hessel's French bestseller Indignez-vous!—should serve as reminder of the power of outraged, united citizens to enact important change.
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Books and the Arts
Nick Cullather’s The Hungry World teaches us that US agricultural assistance in Asia during the cold war was a Green Counterrevolution.
With Examined Lives, James Miller offers a serious and readable study of the relationship between philosophy and life conduct.
Martin Creed and Gabriel Orozco reduce the artistic gesture to the smallest effective intervention into reality.
News and Analysis
As the showdown in Wisconsin demonstrates, progressives must embrace the government workers’ struggle as our own—or else.
Is the Middle East swinging back into a new liberal period?
Egyptians’ aspirations to democracy and social justice will depend on workers’ willingness to take to the streets.
In his new book, Evgeny Morozov calls on the US government to reassess its technology sector, which is now yoked to the geopolitics of several pro-democracy uprisings.
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