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The Fugitive Heiress Next Door

by Seyward Darby June 28, 2023June 28, 2023

“How a reclusive woman’s past in suburban D.C. sparked a true-crime sensation in Brazil—and a national reckoning over the status of household servants.”

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A Few Good Men

by Seyward Darby May 25, 2023May 25, 2023

“Jordan Neely’s killer and the racist violence at the heart of the American imperial project.”

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‘Why You Talking to a Bum?’

by Seyward Darby April 24, 2023April 24, 2023

“When the very presence of unhoused people on the Chicago Transit Authority is considered a public safety concern, who is the public, and what are we keeping them safe from?”

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

by Seyward Darby April 10, 2023April 10, 2023

“Meet the rednecks running a mutual aid auto repair shop in Alabama.”

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Back, Scoundrels: Eating the Rich on Film

by Peter Rubin March 8, 2023March 8, 2023

“A century after ‘Battleship Potemkin,’ portraying class conflict on screen seems less black-and-white, and not just because we’ve invented color photography.”

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Edifice Complex

by Seyward Darby February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

“Restoring the term “burnout” to its roots in landlord arson puts the dispossession of poor city dwellers at its center.”

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Off Our Butts: How Smoking Bans Extinguish Solidarity

by michelleweber February 2, 2017October 19, 2022

An impassioned essay on ways anti-smoking legislation is, and always has been, about social control — bans that target and dehumanize the poor in the name of public health.

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