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Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
Join us as we welcome six thinkers to discuss AI governance, cooperation democracy, and more.
How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.
The stones are endlessly weeping in the dark. Or is it
the bird-chatter of rain. O darling, are you writing
another poem about trees? No, not trees but ghosts
that live on trees and their legend of never-let-gos.
Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says “it’s the economy, stupid.” The truth is more complicated.
Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.
The black feminist Combahee River Collective manifesto and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie share the diagnosis that the wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to hijack activist energies for their own ends.
The problem isn’t new; it’s the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
AI can be used to increase human productivity, create jobs and shared prosperity, and protect and bolster democratic freedoms—but only if we modify our approach.
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German leaders have responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, breaking with the culture of pacifism that emerged after World War II and marking a new wave of militarization.
As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
Alongside select archival essays, this special project features lawyers, activists, historians and more responding to the demands of the 2020 uprisings.
The world never really ended. An apocalypse wasn’t an end so much as a change of state, ice into water.
“I will be a tightrope walker,” she said, “and I will walk across the air to you.”
When you were / in the Everglades we canoed from Flamingo and through the canals.
“Most were drills. Pilots weren’t to know which were the real deal. They were not to think of the lethal effects of their duty.” A pilot is pulled aside by a desperate woman seeking help.
My feet moved down another street / and I saw the shape they would draw / on the map in my mind.
This is my version of the story, but I will illuminate only a corner of it, one that ran parallel to and underneath it, revealing what was left in its wake.
Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.
They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.
Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.
The Federal Reserve’s bid to “get wages down” reflects the enduring hold of neoliberal thought at the highest levels of economic policymaking.
Democratic theory points to two problems: unjust concentrations of power and a flawed theory of knowledge.
This special project begins with a world in crisis—after forty years of market fundamentalism—and asks how we build a new one.
How can the speculative imagination help us build a better world?
At a world-historical moment of global upheaval, speculative writing is enjoying a renaissance. This collection of poetry, stories, and essays engages speculation as both a ubiquitous feature of financial capitalism and a radical tool of collective imagination.
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