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The whole story of SB 1047 is long and complicated, but the gist of it is actually quite simple. By and large, the artificial intelligence industry does not want to be regulated. It especially doesn’t...

Last Wednesday in Pittsburg, Democratic presidential nominee and vice president Kamala Harris outlined her economic plan, a series of proposals that she dubbed the “opportunity economy.” The plan includes a strategy to “invest in emerging...

Joseph Heath, a distinguished academic philosopher from Canada, has now published two essays proclaiming and detailing the death of Marxism. His first essay, “John Rawls and the Death of Western Marxism” is stimulating and engaging....

Last week, Israel launched a wave of air attacks against Lebanon as part of an attack on Hezbollah, heavily bombing densely populated areas south of Beirut. Israeli military leaders have claimed that the attacks have...

Aidan Beatty The ironic thing is that these groups are often quite adept at spotting these problems in each other if not in themselves. Alex Callinicos, for example, wrote a quite solid critique of Trotskyism...

It’s hard to overstate to people who don’t live in Australia just how ubiquitous gambling is here. It’s a local joke here that if rain droplets are falling down a window pane, there will be...

On September 29, 2008, bomb blasts tore through a crowded marketplace in the city of Malegaon in India’s Maharashtra state, where hundreds of Muslims were breaking their Ramadan fast just days before the holiday of...

The explosion of campus protest movements against Israel’s siege of Gaza, especially during the April 2024 encampments, has been historic. These movements showed the whole world that swaths of young people across the United States...

William P. Jones Well, there was a lot of variety within the CIO at the time. I think there were two ways in which the question of anti-communism affected things. One was the increasing intensity...

Tobias Schweiger Exactly. This would also allow us to enable people in different parts of the country to conduct office hours themselves — to give them the financial means to do so. This would be a...

It has been hard in recent years to get anyone remotely left of center to care about the threat of tech censorship. The matter has either become such a right-wing obsession or been taken up...

One of the biggest threats to justice is our unwillingness to treat all people with the dignity and care that they deserve. In our prisons and jails in New York City, where the state has...