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Earlier this year, Amazon announced the deployment of its one-millionth robot. Although the company stresses in all of its communications that robots “work alongside our employees,” augmenting and making human labor easier rather than displacing...

The prime directive of contemporary technology companies is simple: if you can do it, you should do it. A corollary follows: if you can make a profit from it, you must try. Any consequences, damages,...

Jay Kelly is the latest from director and Barbie cowriter Noah Baumbach currently streaming on Netflix after a very limited theatrical release — just enough to be Academy Award eligible of course. The movie opens...

Alex Guerrero The lottocratic system, as I introduce and defend it, would replace a generalist, elected legislature like Congress with a network of twenty single-issue, lottery-selected legislatures, each tasked with focusing on a particular policy...

Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected future mayor of New York City, is a much-needed breath of fresh air. For decades now, Democrats have focused increasingly on identitarian appeals while offering few real solutions to an...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election leaves the US left in uncharted territory. Though democratic socialists have won a series of national races in the decade since Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential...

Thank you for inviting me to say a few words. Let me begin by thanking all of you for having the guts to run for public office. It’s a lot harder to go out and...

Amid unprecedented levels of billionaire and corporate political spending, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a GOP-backed effort to erode some of the last remaining limits on unfettered spending on elections. A...

Fernando Haddad Before Lula was elected in 2022, we spent seven years out of power, which was a consequence of two factors. The first was a parliamentary coup against President Rousseff Dilma in 2016. Up...

In June 1951, British novelist Graham Greene was cruising round the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the guest of movie producer Alexander Korda. By mid-month they had reached Greek waters. “Last night we spent in...

On January 1, socialist mayors will take office in both New York City and Seattle. That’s a total constituency of nearly ten million Americans. While Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson will necessarily be focused on...

The fall of the Assad regime last December, after fifty-five years of hereditary dictatorial rule, was as momentous and unexpected as its beginning and endurance since the 1970s. Amid the unprecedented and uncertain transformations that...