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Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

Evgeny Morozov
Class & Inequality

A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.

Maurice Mitchell, Daniel Cantor
Philosophy

The seductions of medical surveillance.

Omer Rosen
Class & Inequality

How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the planet—and a model for the future of the left.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Politics

Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.

Daniel Berliner
Class & Inequality

Unions turned out for Harris, but Democrats can no longer expect them to deliver working-class voters.

Janice Fine, Benjamin Schlesinger
Politics

Famine denial’s past and present, from Ukraine to Gaza.

Alex de Waal
Politics

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

Robin D. G. Kelley
Philosophy

The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

Peter E. Gordon
Gender & Sexuality

Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

Aaron Bady

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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The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.

Ayça Çubukçu
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A Palestinian catalog of ruin and resilience.

Ahmed Moor
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How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

Barnett R. Rubin

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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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