As the Pentagon moves to sideline a leading artificial intelligence firm over its refusal to support mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, one of the top officials driving the decision has a multimillion-dollar stake in one...
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Journal en ligne Jacobin (en Anglais)
Starting off strong with an amnesiac scientist waking up on a spacecraft with two dead crewmates unable to remember who he is or what deep-space mission he’s been sent on, Project Hail Mary seems headed...
The Paris Commune is known for many things, but typography isn’t one of them. Despite the many posters, tracts, and the extensive archive of a daily newspaper that remain, these printed documents do not stand...
In the 1890s, populism nearly unseated the Democratic Party in Texas. In the years that followed, conservative and white supremacist backlash rose to ensure that the populist People’s Party — the promising, yet imperfect, alliance...
One of my favorite podcasts is 99% Invisible, whose premise is that so much of our existence is shaped not by the attention-grabbing spectacles in our foregrounds but by the infrastructures and superstructures we barely...
For nearly a year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been calling on the Donald Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Well, they’ve been released — and it turns out some of Hochul’s...
Umberto Bossi died last Thursday after being confined to the political margins since 2012, when a party funding scandal forced him to resign as leader of the Lega Nord, which he founded in the 1980s....
Review of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff (HarperCollins, 2026) Elon Musk is many things: entrepreneur, far-right troll, cautionary tale about the negative effects of completely lacking a good sense of...
The setting of Émile Zola’s 1885 novel, Germinal, is nothing if not bleak. In the northern French mining settlement where the book takes place, the roads were “black like mourning trim,” the village “dead ....
Both the White House and Israel wanted swift regime change in Iran. Instead they’ve triggered a spiraling conflict with no plausible endgame. Iran was never on the brink of starting a war. Now Washington and...
A hotly contested primary battle for one of New York City’s coveted congressional seats has reached a breaking point over outside spending, with a progressive challenger Brad Lander demanding the incumbent Democrat, Dan Goldman, sign...
“We are all complicit,” Nathan Robinson of Current Affairs wrote recently regarding the war in Iran. “If you are an American, you paid your government to murder those little girls and those Tehran cafe-goers. Money...
