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How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

Cory Doctorow on Big Tech’s Drive to Enshittify Our Lives

By Cory Doctorow | October 8, 2025

Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

Leigh Claire La Berge Looks Back at the Digital Apocalypse That Wasn’t

By Leigh Claire La Berge | July 1, 2025

What the Gradual Corporate Capture of the Supreme Court Means For Democracy

What the Gradual Corporate Capture of the Supreme Court Means For Democracy

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Jennifer Mueller on the Current Dangers Facing the American Judiciary

By Sheldon Whitehouse and Jennifer Mueller | July 19, 2024

How Walmart’s Business Model Encourages Gender Discrimination

How Walmart’s Business Model Encourages Gender Discrimination

Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit Explore the Impact of Extreme Cost-Cutting on Labor Rights

By Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit | May 23, 2024

How Corporations Tried—And Failed—To Control the Spread of Content Online

How Corporations Tried—And Failed—To Control the Spread of Content Online

David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu on the Evolution of Copyright Law in the Internet Age

By David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu | February 8, 2024

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Considering Boom for Real: The Late-Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat While Walking Through Baltimore

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | November 30, 2023

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How Corporate Money Has Distorted American Science

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Howard Bryant on Colin Kaepernick and the Moral Bankruptcy of the NFL

Howard Bryant on Colin Kaepernick and the Moral Bankruptcy of the NFL

The Cautionary Tale of Nike, ESPN, and the Lure of Corporate Activism

By Howard Bryant | January 22, 2020

On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

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By Nicholas Shaxson | January 15, 2020

The Midcentury Battle to Save America's Cities from Crisis

The Midcentury Battle to Save America's Cities from Crisis

Lizabeth Cohen on the Poverty and Prosperity of the American City

By Lizabeth Cohen | October 8, 2019

Is There Such a Thing as an Ethics of Cosmopolitanism?

Is There Such a Thing as an Ethics of Cosmopolitanism?

Martha C. Nussbaum Goes All the Way Back to Cicero

By Martha C. Nussbaum | August 19, 2019

On Toxic Corporate Culture in Contemporary Fiction

On Toxic Corporate Culture in Contemporary Fiction

Johanna Berkman Reads Novels by Elisabeth Cohen, Halle Butler, and Lydia Kiesling

By Johanna Berkman | June 24, 2019

What's a Poetry Reading Doing at a Tech Start-Up Anyway?

What's a Poetry Reading Doing at a Tech Start-Up Anyway?

On MailChimp's GetLit Series, and Poetry and Advertising's Long Relationship

By Adriane Quinlan | December 8, 2017

Why Do We Trust a Corporation More Than The Government?

Why Do We Trust a Corporation More Than The Government?

On Apple’s Need to Corner the Trust Market

By Andrew Keen | March 1, 2016