Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
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.
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 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.
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.
Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign was a humiliating failure from start to finish. He deserved nothing less.
In the 1960s, artists in Britain and Yugoslavia imagined that the art of socialism might be made with — or even by — computers.
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.
Why millennials don’t grow up.
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.
The UAW has plans to organize more than 150,000 autoworkers in 2024.
For 19th-century Americans, robots were practical Christians, potential spouses, and a serious threat to labor power.
Germany is Israel’s ride-or-die.
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?
Automation is booming in rural China, the strongholds of the US auto industry, and the world’s oldest countries.
Hollywood AI boosters claim that “democratized” movies based on personal choice await us, if only we can get rid of those pesky human beings.
When chatbots take over the world, might they do it as members of a vanguard party?
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.
The English science-fiction writer J. G. Ballard claimed to believe in nothing. Yet his prophetic dystopias reveal a deep awareness of the brutality of class rule and imperialism.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek talking to each other — forever.