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The New China Syndrome

American business meets its new master

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Rethinking Extinction

Toward a less gloomy environmentalism

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Captive Markets

Why we won’t get prison reform

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The Mother of All Questions

I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of people was…

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Dressed Down

From a declaration filed in June in a lawsuit against Dov Charney, the founder and former CEO of American Apparel, by Colleen Brown, who is the chairperson of the company’s…

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Shop Tools

From testimony given last November by Randy Cosby, a district manager of AutoZone, in a gender-discrimination case brought against the company by Rosario Juarez, a former employee at a California…

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Lifting as We Climb

A progressive defense of respectability politics

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Getting Jobbed

The real face of welfare reform

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Selective Service

It may have been that I neglected to register with the Selective Service System when I turned eighteen, in 1960, as the law required. Or maybe my student deferment, available…

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