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Letters
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Belabored: Winning in Logistics Work, with Michelle Valentin and Laleh Khalili
A two-part episode on logistics labor, with Michelle Valentin of the Amazon Labor Union, and Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade.
The Amazon Labor Union’s Historic Breakthrough
How did a scrappy group of organizers without institutional backing prevail over the second-largest employer in the United States?
Who Benefits from the Myth of Pro-War Consensus?
The consensus thesis allows pundits to settle into the comfortable role of brave prophet standing alone against the warmongering tide.
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Ethiopia’s Prisoners of Blood
I have come back here to die,” Desta Abdissa told me in Addis Ababa, “and the sooner the better.” Desta is an Oromo, the largest of Ethiopia’s eighty ethnic groups, comprising as much as half the population. He comes from …
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Minority Rights: On the Importance of Local Knowledge
A small set of crucial human rights are valued, at least in theory, by all governments in the contemporary world. Rights against torture, murder, genocide, and slavery are simply not contested in the public rhetoric of the international arena. Of …
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The Science Wars in India
What do left intellectuals do when they know that they are too marginalized to change the world? They get busy interpreting the world, of course. And interpreting how we interpret the world, and how the non-Western “Others” interpret it, and …