Writing

A few picks

Contract clauses force workers to pay thousands to leave their jobs (New York Times Magazine)

Alabama and the structure of poverty (The New York Times) Cover story Sunday Review

The dystopian, highly surveilled life of long-haul truckers (The New York Times)

Communists car repair in Alabama (Lux) PDF Longreads pick

The movement to make prison-calling free for families (Mother Jones)

Everything else

Features

Reporting

Predatory corporate landlords in Los Angeles (The Prospect)

The inside story of a housing win in Philadelphia (The New Republic)

Accomplice liability laws are a disaster (The Appeal)

Media festivals (Pressland)

The privatization of public health (Harper’s)

The false promise of a progressive sheriff (The New York Times)

Lobstering union (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Urban encampment sweeps (New York Magazine)

A fossil fuel railway in Utah (The Guardian)

Pension funds rob retirement accounts (The American Prospect)

A grocery store (Gothamist)

Essays/Reviews

Netflix‘s autocratic management style (The Baffler) Finalist for 2021 Kukula award, non-fiction book reviewing

Management in the age of fictitious profits (The Baffler)

Panera Cares (The Baffler)

Prison TikTok (New York Times Magazine) Featured on WNPR, the Colin McEnroe Show

The history of New York City’s trash (The New Yorker)

FTX narrative collapse (New York Times Magazine)

Sanctions (The New Republic)

Free market (The Baffler)

Lee Kuan Yew (Mother Jones)

Privatization (The New Republic)

*White Collar crime (The New Republic)

Fraud in banking (The Nation)

Deaths of despair (The New Republic)

Deutsche Bank (The New Republic)

Why every business is a bank  (The New Republic)

*Economists (The New Republic)

Politics of antitrust (The New Republic)

Thomas Piketty (The New Republic)

*Tax dollars don’t pay for anything (The New Republic)

Shadow banking (The New Republic)

Politics of antitrust (The New Republic)

Uber exploits labor law (LA Review of Books)

History of temp labor (LA Review of Books)

Fracking (LA Review of Books) 

The value of bureaucracy (LA Review of Books)

Oklahoma City (LA Review of Books)

Opinion/Etc

Freelancers on strike (The Nation)

The future of daytrading (Insider)

Pandemic fraud (The American Prospect)

A Tax Loophole (The New York Times)

Wholesome content (The New York Times Magazine)

Student debt sinkhole (The New York Times)

Wealthy people against wealth (The New Republic)

The workplace is an autocracy (Business Insider)

Long live Bernie Madoff (The New Republic)

The broken stimulus debate (The Baffler)

Coal miners and taxi strikers (The Baffler)

The radical origins of the creative class (The New Republic)

How long does a crisis last? (The New Republic)

We work too much (The Nation)

Start-ups (The Baffler)

Monopoly is tyranny (The New Republic)

*Remote work won’t save us (The New Republic)

Foretelling the end of capitalism (LA Review of Books)

Colleges push financial literacy (The Baffler)

Fraud in banking (The Nation)

Deaths of despair (The New Republic)

Deutsche Bank (The New Republic)

Why every business is a bank (The New Republic)

*Economists (The New Republic)

Wealth taxes (The Baffler)

Student debt (The Baffler)

Journalism school professors (Study Hall)

Bill de Blasio’s housing policy (The Baffler)

The value of bureaucracy (LA Review of Books)

Oklahoma City (LA Review of Books)