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Corbyn-Sultana Party Bungle & Did Pynchon's Vineland Predict Fascist Future?
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Left Reckoning • Sep 24, 2025

Corbyn-Sultana Party Bungle & Did Pynchon's Vineland Predict Fascist Future?

If Only Pete Hegseth’s Military Shaving Crusade Was Just Stupid
Mother Jones • Sep 23, 2025

If Only Pete Hegseth’s Military Shaving Crusade Was Just Stupid

On September 17, Pete Hegseth—newly dubbed our Secretary of War—announced that any member of the US military who needs a shaving exemption for more than a year will be forced out of the service, tossing out a decades-old policy created for mainly Black and brown troops with pseudofolliculitis barbae, a skin condition that makes daily […]

There Is No Defense For Sweatshops
Current Affairs • Sep 23, 2025

There Is No Defense For Sweatshops

In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman named Tureza Akter committed suicide after facing repeated abuse at a sweatshop in Jordan. Subsequent investigations found that factory managers withheld employees’ passports to prevent them from leaving, forced female employees to strip naked, and required workers to labor 16 hours a day, seven days a week, threatening to withhold already-earned pay if they did not comply.  The clothes produced in this factory bore the logos of Under Armour, Columbia, and American Eagle. 

No, Sweatshops Do Not Help the Poor
Current Affairs • Sep 23, 2025

No, Sweatshops Do Not Help the Poor

In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman named Tureza Akter committed suicide after facing repeated abuse at a sweatshop in Jordan. Subsequent investigations found that factory managers withheld employees’ passports to prevent them from leaving, forced female employees to strip naked, and required workers to labor 16 hours a day, seven days a week, threatening to withhold already-earned pay if they did not comply.  The clothes produced in this factory bore the logos of Under Armour, Columbia, and American Eagle. 

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