—How big corporations and Wall Street transformed each of capitalism’s building blocks to serve their needs—
The Non-fiction Feature
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Author: Robert Reich
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
Pages: 304 | 2015
Some who are now typically on the right of the political spectrum—individual investors, family businesses, entrepreneurs, the inhabitants of rural communities, and the white working class, for example—may discover they have much in common with working women, minorities, and urban professionals, all typically on the left.
Among other things, all are paying more for pharmaceuticals, broadband connection, food, credit card debt, and health insurance than they would be were the rules of the market not shaped by big corporations.
The Fiction Spot
This Mournable Body
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
“She likes you. In spite of your searing need to be favoured, your heart sinks. The snakes in your belly yawn. You feel as though your womb twitches. You are growing suspicious at being liked by this woman, knowing there is nothing about yourself that counts as amiable.”
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