Capitalism

Two new books argue that the attention economy is unsustainable—for people, and for the planet.

Roy's essays about the environmental and human costs of late-capitalist development read as dispatches from a recent past that will also be our future.

Four scholars explain why the failure of Venezuela is due to corruption—not to universal health care.

In her most recent book, Merve Emre examines our obsession with ourselves.

The R&B artist refuses to conform to the world's expectations for plus-sized black women, and she creates music as sensual as it is empowering.

Without a drastic change to the system, sustainable agriculture risks becoming an esoteric side note—or simply another way for those with money to live healthier lives than those without.

Three new books explore how and why our society is structured to make being a mother so hard.

An interview with Jamie Margolin, founder of Zero Hour and the youngest official speaker at this week's climate summit in San Francisco.

Looking back at Adrienne Rich's politics and prose—and toward a radical feminist future.

Ottessa Moshfegh's unsettling, darkly funny new novel asks readers to wake up.

In a new essay, the pope calls for intensified regulation of the "sophisticated technologies" of financial markets.

Two recently passed pieces of legislation are driving big near-term deficit spikes.

On W.E.B. Du Bois' theory of the working class and how race and class cannot be separated in the United States.

Daniel Borzutzky's new collection confronts the perverse logics of fascism and the free market.

The free market is a theoretical fiction, with enormous social costs.

Where other horror shows tell you to fear technology, Butcher's Block tells you to fear the rich.

Our refusal to learn from Europe is contributing to our overworked, hyper-stressed way of life.

A new study asks: Can countries meet citizens' needs without over-consuming resources?

Compelling without being any fun, the mindless minimalism of clicker games provides a futuristic look at the present.

The way Christmas movies tell it, the generosity of individual tycoons is sufficient to mitigate the harms of class inequality.

Can any show with an extraordinary hero advance egalitarian politics?

Malcolm Harris' new book argues that grim realities are behind the hand-wringing press about Gen Y.

More readings on the fallacy of endless economic growth.

What economists around the world get wrong about the future.