Workers Need to Fight to Make Sure AI Works for Them

Workers can’t stop the introduction of new technologies like AI. But they can and should fight to make sure productivity gains benefit them rather than CEOs and shareholders.

Airlines Filed 1,800 Reports Warning About Boeing’s 737 Max

Since 2020, airlines have filed more than 1,800 safety concerns over the Boeing 737 Max to federal regulators. Safety advocates assert that understaffed airline regulators have failed to acknowledge or address the problems.

Joe Biden’s Air Strikes on Yemen Are Reckless and Wrong

The Biden administration has chosen to open up a new front in Yemen instead of pressuring Israel to stop its onslaught against Gaza. Air strikes are unlikely to deter attacks on Red Sea shipping, but they could undercut a deal to end Yemen’s bloody civil war.

Obsessive Culture War Is a Dead End. Just Ask Ron DeSantis.

Ron DeSantis went all in on the niche fixations of online right-wing culture warriors. In the process, his failed presidential campaign proved that the Right’s obsessive “anti-wokeness” is a political cul-de-sac.

Ireland’s Leaders Must Take a Stand in Solidarity With Gaza

Ireland has an image as Europe’s most pro-Palestinian country, but its government hasn’t been representing strong popular solidarity with the people of Gaza. They can change that by supporting South Africa’s International Court of Justice case against Israel.

Minnesota Strikes Show Growing Militancy Among Food Workers

Late last month, 500 grocery workers went on strike in Brainerd Lakes, Minnesota. The strike exemplified the growing militancy in the United Food and Commercial Workers, who mounted successful strike threats against employers across the state last year.

Thanks, Ron DeSantis, for the Laughs

Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign was a humiliating failure from start to finish. He deserved nothing less.

Formulas for Socialist Painting

In the 1960s, artists in Britain and Yugoslavia imagined that the art of socialism might be made with — or even by — computers.

Big Oil’s Marketing Campaign Is Targeting US Classrooms

A nonprofit backed by the fossil fuel industry has wormed its way into Illinois public schools to convince students to pursue careers in oil and gas.

Adulting in Middle Age

Why millennials don’t grow up.

France’s Elites Are Turning Their Backs on Public Education

Emmanuel Macron has sparked protests after appointing an education minister who sent her own children to private school. France’s school system has never delivered real equality — but as the rich flock to the private sector, it’s only getting worse.

Do Not Fear the New Jacobin

Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolutions

The UAW has plans to organize more than 150,000 autoworkers in 2024.

Back to the Future

For 19th-century Americans, robots were practical Christians, potential spouses, and a serious threat to labor power.

Odd Bedfellows

Germany is Israel’s ride-or-die.

Economic Ennui

At the beginning of the 20th century, Argentina was one of the world’s 10 wealthiest countries by per capita income. As of 2021, it’s 86th. What happened?

Where Are All the Robots, Anyway?

Automation is booming in rural China, the strongholds of the US auto industry, and the world’s oldest countries.

Hollywood Welcomes Its Silicon Valley Overlords

Hollywood AI boosters claim that “democratized” movies based on personal choice await us, if only we can get rid of those pesky human beings.

Conversations With Friends

When chatbots take over the world, might they do it as members of a vanguard party?

Detroit Techno’s Dance with Death

As automation ravaged Detroit, black musicians created a new sound that merged human and machine. With it came a vision for working-class self-organization in the Motor City.