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Banking on Death shows that pensions are political dynamite

the audience for the arts remained a privileged minority

City of Segregation traces the central role racism has played in shaping modern Los Angeles—as it has shaped all US cities

pesticide exposure and lack of healthcare

headed at the time by Palmiro Togliatti

City of Quartz keyword-daniel-bensaid Banking on Death shows thatNo metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have