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Is petty theft the new political protest?

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Halina Bennet
Apr 23, 2026
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I finally watched the New York Times Opinion interview with the New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino and the political commentator Hasan Piker about petty theft as political protest. The interview has gotten a lot of flak online:

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