The Silicon-Tongued Devil

ChatGPT feeds on language, outputting texts that reinforce the basic assumptions of our culture. The rise of AI forces the Left to take a hard look at the politics of language and the linguistics of Noam Chomsky.

Biden Could Rescind Trump’s Boeing Immunity Deal

In the wake of two 737 Max crashes, Donald Trump’s administration made a deal with Boeing that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution. Now, if claims of airline safety issues are proven true, Joe Biden’s DOJ could rescind it.

Ron DeSantis’s Presidential Bid Was Always Doomed

Cartoonishly unlikable, Ron DeSantis was a candidate seemingly engineered to appeal only to the hyperspecific grievances of social media–addled right-wingers. His failed bid shows just how cloistered the conservative movement has become.

Europe’s Leaders Are Addicted to Austerity

The pandemic exposed the fragile state of Europe’s public services after years of austerity. Now the European Council has backed a new set of austerian fiscal rules — imposing an estimated €100 billion in cuts, which will hit working-class people hardest.

State Repression Is What Fuels the Conflict in Balochistan

An exchange of air strikes between Iran and Pakistan put Balochistan on the global news agenda this month. Pakistan’s largest province is also its poorest, and the only way to establish peace there is by ending a long history of discrimination and repression.

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.