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Losing Sparta

By Esther Kaplan, Photography by David M. Barreda

The Bitter Truth Behind the Gospel of Productivity

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Issue: Summer 2014 / Volume 90/3

Published: June 10, 2014

Esther Kaplan

Esther Kaplan is editor of the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, an award-winning nonprofit journalism shop, and was the 2013 Josephine Patterson Albright fellow at the Alicia Patterson Foundation. She has written for the Nation, the American Prospect, the Village Voice, and other publications, and is...

David M. Barreda

David M. Barreda is the visuals editor for ChinaFile, an online news magazine, and was previously a photographer at the Miami Herald, the Rocky Mountain News, and the Valley News, and a photographer and multimedia producer at the San Jose Mercury News. He holds a master’s...

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