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Read more Google’s corporate parent posts first-ever quarter with $100B in revenue in latest show of its powerThis is part of Reason‘s 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. A three-story house tucked into a mere one-meter gap between tall buildings. A…
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Read more Bob Murphy: Welcome to MAGA socialismPresident Donald Trump negotiated a deal last week for the U.S. government to take a substantial ownership stake in an American company. Despite his assurances, Trump’s socialistic transaction…
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Read more As Charlize Theron’s J’Adore Era Comes to An End, Rihanna and Dior Have “Capitalism on the Brain”Although some could argue that Ronald Reagan’s oppressive regime in the 1980s is part of what fueled better pop culture than the schlock of the moment, one thing…
Read more Trump Brings Back the Worst of the 80sIn a world obsessed with public image and attention-seeking, learn about the cultural forces propelling society to become more narcissistic – and how this influences us to be…
Read more The Narcissistic Culture of “Image” and Excessive Self-MonitoringAs yet another narrative that proves capitalism drives people to do insane (and cold-blooded) things, Griselda is as much an exaltation of the beloved American system as it…
Read more Griselda Shades What A Shithole America IsConsistently talked about as the weirdest, most unclassifiable thing that has ever aired on television (obviously, those who say that have never seen Twin Peaks), The Curse’s series…
Read more “Passive” Living Has A Price (And It’s Called White Guilt): The CurseOpinion Creative Commons We have far-left Democratic politicians who want to bring full blown socialism to the United States. They’re not ashamed of it, some of them even…
Read more Let's Check In On Communism: Cuba Raising Gas Price To $20 A GallonIn 2021, a horror-comedy called Black Friday was released to little fanfare. For, while its premise was solid, its execution was decidedly wobbly. When Eli Roth created the…
Read more Thanksgiving: The Kickoff of Greed Season, Or: Eli Roth Gives America a Bitter Reflection of Itself in Ultimate Holiday Horror MovieFrom ‘Bah, humbug!’ to redemption: Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ unfolds as more than just a festive fable, offering profound insights into self-discovery, kindness, and rewriting one’s life…
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Read more Research shows that grandparents are great personal finance teachers. Here’s what my poppa who became an accountant during the Great Depression tried to teach me about moneyIn 2023, Wal-Mart has so “generously” allowed us to catch a glimpse into the lives of where the mean girls from 2004 are now. Not only that, but…
Read more The Grim Fan Fiction Presented by the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart CommercialApart from being one of the most overt pieces of capitalist propaganda to wield pop culture in recent memory, the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart commercial is a stark…
Read more Gen Zers Think Millennials Are Cringe, But Still Want to Emulate Them in the Mean Girls CommercialAs the “reunion” that everyone’s been waiting for, it was practically inevitable that the Mean Girls “assembly” (high school pun intended) would disappoint. Mainly because, yes, the so-called…
Read more Mean Girls x Wal-Mart Commercial: A None Too Subtle Trojan Horse for Capitalism Via Millennial Nostalgia
