Author Archives: Sarah Jaffe

Rethinking Work: farming as labor

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: March 17, 2010
Real farming is backbreaking work.
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Glenn Beck’s attack on Bruce Springsteen: pathetic

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: March 15, 2010
To obey is easy; to communicate is hard.
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Rethinking Work: cooking as labor

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: March 9, 2010
Cooking, when it is glamorous and well-compensated, is something for men.
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Vancouver Games & gender: Lindsay Vonn to Johnny Weir

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: February 24, 2010
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

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: February 18, 2010
"These guys are America's gladiators."
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Rethinking Work: journalism as labor

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: February 11, 2010
The Internet did not kill journalism—profit-seeking did.
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Question time with President Obama at the Republican Issues Retreat

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: February 3, 2010
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

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: February 1, 2010
"From GRITtv to Mother Jones to the Nation, everyone's doing it."
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Rethinking Work: art as labor

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: January 26, 2010
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

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: January 10, 2010
You cannot buy your way out of the climate crisis one Burt's Bees product at a time.
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