Author Archives: Sarah Jaffe

Rethinking Work: farming as labor

Real farming is backbreaking work.
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Glenn Beck’s attack on Bruce Springsteen: pathetic

To obey is easy; to communicate is hard.
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Rethinking Work: cooking as labor

Cooking, when it is glamorous and well-compensated, is something for men.
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Vancouver Games & gender: Lindsay Vonn to Johnny Weir

Women are as guilty as anyone else when it comes to not supporting women's sports.
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Rethinking Work: sports as labor

"These guys are America's gladiators."
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Rethinking Work: journalism as labor

The Internet did not kill journalism—profit-seeking did.
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Question time with President Obama at the Republican Issues Retreat

Marsha Blackburn's voice oozed condescension, but Obama coolly out-condescended her
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What’s the future of journalism? Tracy Van Slyke knows

"From GRITtv to Mother Jones to the Nation, everyone's doing it."
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Rethinking Work: art as labor

A survey noted that while 96% of U.S. respondents thought art was valuable, only 27% of them valued the artists who make it.
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The weird elitism of “the personal is political” saps our strength

You cannot buy your way out of the climate crisis one Burt's Bees product at a time.
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