Simon Head

Big Brother Goes Digital

The new world of workplace surveillance and control

Brexit: ‘Take Back Control’?

If the last year and a half has revealed anything about British politics, it is the instability of public opinion.

Britain on the Brink

After the British government’s formal notification on March 29 that it will leave the European Union, the central issue for the UK remains: How will Brexit affect the UK economy?

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

UK Business: How It Died

The large-scale flight of foreign capital from Britain would be a mortal blow to the UK economy, which has long depended on investment from abroad to make up for the weaknesses in its own corporate and financial institutions.

Why Goldman Matters

Hillary Clinton’s repeated dealings with Goldman Sachs and its top executives since the financial crisis—including the 2013 speeches and more recent events involving the Clinton Foundation—run counter to her public criticisms of Wall Street.

The Clinton System

Few have been as adept at exploiting big-money politics as Bill and Hillary Clinton. It is important to consider how they built their powerful donor machine, and what its existence might mean for Hillary Clinton’s future conduct as American president.

The Sanders Revolt

The least understood strand of Bernie Sanders’s radicalism has been his ability to organize the shrinking middle class, both white- and blue-collar, the working and non-working poor, as well as young, first-time voters with large student-loan debts into a previously unrecognized constituency.

The Threat to British Universities

They’re Micromanaging Your Every Move

Working for Wal-Mart: An Exchange

Inside the Leviathan

The New, Ruthless Economy

The East German Disaster

The Battle Inside NATO

Brezhnev and After

Brezhnev and After

The Kurdish Tragedy

The Monarchs of the Persian Gulf

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