Firms like OpenAI are developing AI in a way that has deeply ominous implications for workers in many different fields. The current trajectory of AI can only be changed through direct confrontation with the overweening power of the tech giants.
Student Palestine Solidarity Activism Proves Hard to Squash
Donald Trump’s administration has cracked down hard on Palestine solidarity activism. But despite profound repression, many students on American campuses continue to demand that universities stop investing in companies that profit from the destruction of Gaza.
Albania’s for Sale, and Jared Kushner’s Buying
Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has sealed a $1.4 billion deal to redevelop Albania’s largest island. Long a protected area, now it’s set to be paved over to build a luxury resort.
Populism Was Born From a Rural-Urban Alliance
In 1880s Texas, farmers and factory workers discovered they had the same enemy: corporate capitalists. Their alliance birthed American populism and offers lessons for today’s working class divided by false urban-rural antagonisms.
The “Magabundance” Agenda Is Creating Strange Bedfellows
Supply-side progressivism is forging unexpected alliances between populist Democrats, business-friendly centrists, and MAGA Republicans around militarized growth. The result is a post-neoliberal politics that accommodates authoritarian populism.
Yanis Varoufakis on the Legacy of Greece’s Oxi Referendum
Ten years ago today, the people of Greece voted decisively in a referendum to reject an EU austerity program. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks to us about how it happened and of the betrayal that followed.
This July 4, Let’s Resolve to Win an Actual Democracy
The US government is already preparing massive celebrations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for next July 4, the country’s semiquincentennial. It’s high time to scrap the antidemocratic system the framers bequeathed to us.
ICE Is About to Get More Money Than It Can Spend
Donald Trump’s budget bill is set to make ICE the single largest federal law enforcement agency in US history. The mass deportations the far right fantasizes about will remain unrealistic, but not for lack of funds.
Mexico Is Showing the World How to Stand Up to Donald Trump
Donald Trump loves to try to bully Mexico. But President Claudia Sheinbaum is showing the world how to stand up to the MAGA administration without playing into its hands.
John Maynard Keynes warned that when real investment becomes the by-product of speculation, the result is often disaster. But it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
Shulamith Firestone’s Postmortem for Radical Feminism
Shulamith Firestone’s writing captured the utopian spirit of radical feminism. In her last published book, Airless Spaces, she took stock of that movement’s failures amid the crisis of care unleashed by the destruction of the welfare state.
Christianity and Sex Have Always Had an Awkward Relationship
The latest work by renowned historian Diarmaid MacCulloch tackles Christian attitudes to sex over the centuries. Modern-day Christians who talk about traditional values usually don’t know how changeable their tradition has been.
How Canada Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dysfunction
Canada’s democracy is in crisis but Canadians don’t seem to care. What looks like complacency, however, may actually be the result of decades of institutional drift and managed inertia.
Trump’s Deportation Threat Against Zohran Mamdani Is Shameful
In only half a year of Donald Trump’s presidency, he and his allies have turned deportation into an explicitly political threat against opponents and critics. The latest and most high-profile is Zohran Mamdani.