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Good morning! In case you missed it, our most popular post last week was Natalia Antonova's modest proposal: Maybe the rich shouldn't have to pay taxes? Have another suggestion for reforming the US...
Good morning, gentle readers! This week we're exploring longreads on convict labour, Eid celebrations, and much more. Join us as we talk about what we're reading...and consider dropping into...
It's late today, but that makes it all the sweeter! Here are the stories we're keeping our eyes on this week. As always, we're interested to know what you're reading, or what you wish you could be...
Happy April from Global Comment! We're reading all sorts of things this week as we delve into politics and culture around the globe. Here's a taste of what we've been up to...add your own...
One of the books on my New Year reading list is Sari Botton’s award-winning anthology “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York,” whose contributors include everyone from...
Truly, there’s absolutely nothing more embarrassing and awkward than running into poor people in the halls of your own apartment building. It’s bad enough that they have to live there in the...
Russian Film Week NYC, which took place from October 28th through November 4th in the (historically Ukrainian) East Village, opened, appropriately enough, with Slava Ross’s “Siberia, Monamour,”...
Two weeks after a small band of protesters set up camp in New York’s Liberty Plaza Park, deep in the heart of the financial district, our numbers have expanded to staggering numbers. This is true...
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the...