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McDonald’s Workers Are Worth More

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

For Al Jazeera English, I have a new article on low-wage workers and the end of upward mobility in America: This lapse in priorities – in which things we buy are thought to be morally superior to people who sell … Continue reading →

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The murder of Trayvon Martin

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

I have a new article about the murder of Trayvon Martin: Trayvon Martin is dead and the man who killed him walks free. Americans are afraid there will be riots, like there were after the King verdict in 1992. But … Continue reading →

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What Celebrities and Dictators Have in Common

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

Last week Jennifer Lopez performed at a birthday party for Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the dictator of Turkmenistan. For Foreign Policy, I analyze the anxiety behind the outrage that ensued: Celebrities and dictators have a lot in common. They lead lavish lifestyles … Continue reading →

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The myth of the “skills gap”

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

Inspired by this Guardian article on joblessness in Europe, today I tweeted about the myth of the “skills gap” – a catchphrase frequently trotted out to explain away mass unemployment among the young. I will write about this more in … Continue reading →

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How the Uzbek Government Targets Exiles Abroad

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

I have a new article for Al Jazeera English about how the government of Uzbekistan punishes exiles abroad by persecuting their relatives at home. Two weeks ago, Hasan Choriyev, the father of Uzbek activist Bahodir Choriyev, was unlawfully detained: It … Continue reading →

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Why Complaining Is a Good Thing

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

For Al Jazeera English, I took on a subject on which I am indisputably an expert: complaining. Naturally, I came down on the side of the complainers: In an America built on the reinvention of reality, critical words make people uneasy … Continue reading →

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The Perils of the Prestige Economy

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

I have a new interview with the website PolicyMic on what I call the prestige economy. The interview touches on a number of subjects – unpaid internships, the rising price of higher education, inequality and immobility, media, and geography of … Continue reading →

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The moral bankruptcy of the internship economy

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

Every now and again I use Twitter to make a multipoint argument. Today I talked about unpaid internships and youth unemployment. The tweets have gotten a lot of attention, so I’m reposting them here. You can follow me on Twitter … Continue reading →

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Two Upcoming Talks

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

This Wednesday I’ll be giving a talk at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University with Noah Tucker, a fellow Central Asia analyst. Our talk is called “Digital Memory and a Massacre: Post-Soviet Uzbek Identity in the … Continue reading →

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What Happens When the “Screwed Generation” Has Children of Their Own?

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

Most media portrayals of the so-called “millennial” generation – people born roughly between the late 1970s and the late 1990s – portray them as lazy losers living in their parents’ basements. What most miss is that a third of millennials … Continue reading →

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