In an excerpt from this week’s episode with Molly Crabapple, she shares advice to young women. “Develop every aspect…, including the jagged bits and the complicated bits, and to be who they...
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From sex workers in the US to prisoners in Guantanamo, artist and journalist Molly Crabapple has been there. Her bold and powerful work has also taken her to Abu Dhabi’s migrant labor camps, and with rebels in Syria. Her new memoir, Drawing Blood, was just released in December. She is a contributing editor for VICE and has written for publications including The New York Times, Paris Review, and Vanity Fair. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. This episode also features a commentary from Laura on the dark magic of the art...
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Ecuador’s former Finance Minister Pedro Páez on when they renegotiated loans, cut debt payments and reinvested in the local...
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With #BlackLivesMatter movement’s co-founders Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Marie Cullors, as well as important thoughts on the movement from Marlon Peterson, CeCe McDonald, Robin DG Kelley, Tim Wise, Jeff Chang, Larry Hanley, Bryan Stevenson, Noam Chomsky, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Andrea Ritchie, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and footage from...
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“Laissez faire” capitalists love to argue that the market itself is magic. You don’t need government or regulation to rein in bad companies — consumers will do it. The principle involved is called “reputation”. It’s amazing how vigorously, then, some governments will get involved to defend bad companies from shame. Several years ago, activists in North America, Europe and Israel, began campaigning for a boycott of companies based in occupied territory. Among those is the Ahava Corporation. In the US, women organized by CodePink started showing up at Ahava stores dressed in bikinis daubed in mud. It’s not pretty...
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