“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.”
Classism
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A Few Good Men
“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?’
“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
“Meet the rednecks running a mutual aid auto repair shop in Alabama.”
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Back, Scoundrels: Eating the Rich on Film
“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
“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
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.