Rethinking Work: cooking as labor
Food politics are sweeping the United States. The local food movement, the slow food movement, all of it embodied in periodic sweeping pieces from lead guru Michael Pollan, whose writing is lush and...
Author: Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is former deputy editor of GlobalComment. She's interested in politics and pop culture, and has a special place in her heart for comics.
Vancouver Games & gender: Lindsay Vonn to Johnny Weir
Last week, writing about sports as labor, I noted that sports are a form of collective identification—of solidarity—a way to bring a community together around feats of strength and competition...
Rethinking Work: sports as labor
Last week, the New Orleans Saints, long NFL football's worst team, won the Super Bowl. A city cheered, and people from around the country whose teams were knocked out earlier in the season joined...
Rethinking Work: journalism as labor
Let me be the first to say this to you: Welcome to the American working class. That was Barbara Ehrenreich, addressing the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism this year....
Question time with President Obama at the Republican Issues Retreat
I skipped the State of the Union. I've been fed up with Obama speeches for a bit—strange, considering he's the best political speaker of my lifetime, certainly. But I just couldn't take another...
What’s the future of journalism? Tracy Van Slyke knows
The future of journalism: it's the subject of books, panel discussions, and countless blog posts and news articles, most of which revolve around the ways we can fund media after the shift to the Web....
Rethinking Work: art as labor
In my recent piece on activism as labor, I briefly touched on the connections between art and street activism, and promised to get back to that soon. I do think that in a discussion of art as labor,...
The weird elitism of “the personal is political” saps our strength
Has the old battle cry “The personal is political” been taken too far or perhaps, too literally? More importantly, have our politics descended into a form of narcissism, of trying to purify...
A hot mess of a decade, a reason for the American Left to be hopeful
Five years ago, give or take a couple of months, I was in Denver at a concert on the Plea for Peace tour. I was a rock and film writer just cutting her teeth on her first political column, and it was...
Rethinking Work: how about we take activism seriously?
The Internet was aflutter this week with drama over Matt Taibbi's latest Rolling Stone story, wherein he blasts the Obama administration as being crammed full of multimillionaires from Wall Street...