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Sphere of Affluence

by Richard Beck,

From Homeland, which was published in September by Crown. In his 2005 book Planet of Slums, Mike Davis pointed out that, since the Seventies, the world’s poor countries have urbanized…

Bell the Cat

by Jesse Ball,

Friends Like These

From resolutions passed by the United Nations General Assembly since 1982 for which the United States and Israel were the only two member states, of more than 150 nations, to…

Hard Times

by Andrew Cockburn,

Will America recover under Biden?

The Last Frontier

by Ted Conover,

Homesteaders on the margins of America

The Last Frontier

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Ted Conover

Range life: the not entirely romantic existence of homesteaders in the San Luis Valley

Is Poverty Necessary?

by Harper’s Magazine,

Who generates value in the modern economy, and who should benefit?

Is Poverty Necessary?

by Marilynne Robinson,

An idea that won’t go away

Lost at Sea

by Joe Kloc,

Poverty and paradise at the edge of America

The Death of a Once Great City

by Kevin Baker,

The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

Coming Apart

by Rebecca Solnit,

In early 2015, fire ravaged a three-story building at the corner of 22nd and Mission in San Francisco. The blaze killed Mauricio Orellana, an immigrant from El Salvador, and destroyed…

Poverty

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Sphere of Affluence

Bell the Cat

Friends Like These

Hard Times

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

Is Poverty Necessary?

Is Poverty Necessary?

Lost at Sea

The Death of a Once Great City

Coming Apart

November 2016

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