Not online yet, and not even on the newstands, but the cover article in the next issue of The Atlantic looks like a winner, if by “winner” you mean provocative:

How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement

Because of “the unmade beds, the children with their endless questions, the tendency of a good fight over housework to stop the talking and the kissing,” the author writes, “one of the most profound cultural revolutions in American history came perilously close to running aground.” But then the forces of global capitalism solved the problem: America’s newly liberated class of educated professional women found itself presented with an army of poor, easily exploited women from other countries who could take care of their children and clean their houses.

On your newstand in a week….

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