by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | External link

Many jobs are pointless. Others are being automated away. In the future, who will still work for a paycheck?

The New Republic was founded in 1914 as a call to arms for public-minded intellectuals advocating liberal reform in a new industrial age. Now, two decades into a new century, TNR remains, if anything, more committed than ever to its first principles—and, most of all, to the need to rethink outworn assumptions and political superstitions as radically changing conditions demand.