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Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.
How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the planet—and a model for the future of the left.
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Unions turned out for Harris, but Democrats can no longer expect them to deliver working-class voters.
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.
The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.
Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.
Generative AI tools, released by a handful of rich tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it. Must their vision be our common destiny?
Evgeny Morozov leads a forum, with responses from Brian Eno, Audrey Tang, Bruce Schneier, Edward Ongweso Jr., and others. Plus Sophia Goodfriend on AI and war, Lily Hu on the political theory of algorithms, Alexander Hartley on copyright after ChatGPT, and more.
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How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.
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In the United States, the division of power between state and national government hurts democracy rather than helps it.
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