Anand Giridharadas's Blog, page 8
May 2, 2015
Want a Steady Income? There’s an App for That
A Silicon Valley start-up wants to put workers on an even keel.
April 28, 2015
Words to Get Elected By, or So She Hopes
Hillary Rodham Clinton seems to have settled on a word to encompass not quite all Americans in a time of economic and social flux.
April 14, 2015
Innovation Isn’t Making World Equal
It's possible that we live in a peculiar age that, in America at least, is innovation-rich and progress-poor.
March 31, 2015
Doublespeak in the New Economy
Welcome to the neo-Orwellianism of Silicon Valley, where companies have parlayed the novelty of their business models into hall passes shielding them from scrutiny.
March 17, 2015
The Purity of a Ruthless TV Couple
An obvious appeal of "House of Cards" is that it takes the United States' already dysfunctional politics and reduces it ad absurdum, Anand Giridharadas writes.
March 3, 2015
The Struggle Over Who Is 'American'
The question of who is a "genuine American'' is being directed in a slightly different form at, of all people, the former Florida governor Jeb Bush.
February 17, 2015
TV News and the Idea of Truth
On Jon Stewart's show, the truth was a process; on Brian Williams's, it was an outcome.
February 2, 2015
Obama Has Little to Say to the Poor
The president's State of the Union address focused on "middle-class economics" and the "working family," neglecting those with little financial hope.
January 20, 2015
A Welcome Chorus of Discordant Disagreement
After the tragedy of the Paris attacks united the West in defense of free speech, a predictable, and laudible, cacophany of opinions has ensued.
January 6, 2015
Workplaces Remain Averse to Flexibility
Despite the evidence, people seeking more flexible workplaces and jobs still often find themselves penalized.
