CAPITALISM
Revisiting Josie and the Pussycats: The World’s Greatest Fictional Pop-Punk Band
They sounded like a cross between No Doubt and Blink-182, and dressed like they’d been dragged arse backwards through Tammy Girl.
This Russian Gravedigger-Turned-Singer Hates Western Culture so Much He Blew Up His Car
He also crushes cans with his teeth, burns $20,000, and starts fights on talk shows.
What It's Like to Be an Interior Designer for Really, Really Rich People
An interior designer, who works with A-list clients who spend upwards of £30,000 a room, explains the sociopathy and delusional thinking that comes with disposable incomes.
How You May Indirectly Be Funding Child Slavery
We talked to the creator of Slavery Footprint, a new website that shows how many slaves are working for you in the global supply chain.
I Interviewed Paul Mason About How Capitalism Is Going to End
In his new book, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, Mason predicts that we're due a new economic system, one birthed by the "smartphone generation".
We Went to the Freaky Animatronic Hospital Where Cabbage Patch Kids Are Born
Cabbage Patch Kids aren't birthed out of vaginas. Instead, they come from giant, baby-filled trees.
Nicaragua's New Canal Comes at the Expense of Homes and Drinking Water
At the end of last year, a Chinese billionaire and CEO of a telecoms company began throwing money at one of the most colossal construction projects in history: a shipping canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The Man Who Says He Knows the Truth About America's Economic Stranglehold on the World
We talked to Matt Kennard, author of The Racket, a new book that investigates how the US government, its banks and its intelligence agencies enforce a very covert and modern type of imperialism.
This Theorist Believes That Capitalism Creates Mass Murderers by Causing People to 'Malfunction'
We spoke to academic Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, who believes mass killings like the Germanwings tragedy could be caused by the effects of capitalism on our collective mental health.
The Utopia of Rules – Why We're Drowning in More Paperwork Than Ever Before
David Graeber follows up his international bestseller Debt: The First 5000 Years with an attack on capitalism's love affair with bureaucracy, asking why our lives revolve around forms, fines and threats.
The 'Dangerous Delusions' About How to Help the World's Poor
I spoke to one of the people behind a report called "The Poor Are Getting Richer and Other Dangerous Delusions" about how this week's World Economic Forum in Davos will get things wrong.
Black Friday Footage Is Basically Poverty Porn
If you think fighting over a flat-screen TV makes someone an animal, you've probably never struggled to afford anything.