Who are the new poor? And what can we do about it?
In these videos Stephen Armstrong looks at the erosion of the welfare state since the original Beveridge report in 1942, and builds up a shocking picture of what poverty looks like today.
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Sinking Feelings: Of Glaciers, Zombies, and Catastrophic Affect
Official assessments radically underestimate the magnitude of warming experienced by city dwellers today. To live in a large city today is to be on the edge of the most rapidly changing environmental conditions ever experienced by humans.
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Thank God, It’s Over: Eight years of Wolfgang Schäuble
Schäuble drove euro nations to the brink of collapse and allowed the German state to record an enormous current account surplus at exactly the wrong time.
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Reagan at the Movies
A previously unpublished 1986 essay by filmmaker Thom Andersen, excerpted from a new collection of his writings.
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Five Book Plan: Cities and Climate Change — Five Years After Hurricane Sandy
On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Ashley Dawson provides a select list of books and resources for assessing the history and future of cities facing climate change.
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The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Extreme Cities looks at how climate change is affecting global cities and how to support urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way.
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The Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt
In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers.
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Mourning and Mannahatta
In the Cut cannily moves its counter across a board whose rules have been laid down by Freudian psychoanalysis, Propp’s analysis of folk tales, and film theory’s obsession with the B-movie and noir.
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Is Hindu Communalism Fascism?
From part three of The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism, Achin Vanaik's proposed framework for evaluating contemporary authoritarianism and nationalism.
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Five Book Plan: The Radical Right in America
David Neiwert, author of Alt-America, picks his essential reads on the American far right.
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Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
“An alarming, well-researched account of how the far-right extremist underground became empowered in the era of Trump... A prescient discussion of one of the darkest issues facing America today.” – Kirkus
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Was there a General Crisis of Feudalism?
Was the feudal order subject to accidental disintegration; did it collapse under several unrelated crises; or was there a general crisis of this society because of its inherent weaknesses?
