Top A.I. Leaders Call for Slowing Down A.I. Development

In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

“The Final Battle for America’s Democracy.”

On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J. Michael Luttig published a dire warning to the Republican Party…and to all Americans. Luttig outlined how Republicans could refuse to seat elected Democrats after a Democratic victory.

Mapuche Struggle Under Far-Right Chilean Government

Ethan Madarieta discusses the colonial foundations of the Chilean state.

Socialist Labor Unionists Who Took On Samuel Gompers

Though little remembered now, at the turn of the 20th century Cleveland’s socialists heroically fought Samuel Gompers for leadership of the American Federation of Labor — putting forward a revolutionary alternative to Gompers’s conservative unionism.

UK Israel Sanctions Real Progress, or More Illusion?

The UK's new sanctions on Israeli settlements may be groundbreaking, but they're also full of loopholes. F-35 parts are exempt, the state itself is untouched, and enforcement won't start for months. Real progress, but far from enough.

How Status Quo Democrats Could Create Another Trump

A new study suggests Democrats’ broken promises won’t just cost them elections — they could fuel an even more dangerous MAGA backlash.

The Left Needs More Working-Class Leaders

A new report finds a massive divide between working-class voters and college-educated progressives. Closing it means handing working-class people real power over a left-wing program.

For Many Muslim Women, Suspicion After 9/11 Remains

Muslim women have spent 25 years navigating the effects of 9/11 — and a growing perception that their faith and visibility pose a cultural threat.

Data Center Resistance and Multiracial Democracy

Anti-data center sentiment, from Kentucky to Michigan, is proving to be an effective way to overcome racial divisions and carve out new winning coalitions.

Generation Z in Iran: A Contemporary Perspective

Iran’s Generation Z may constitute a significant arena of political engagement and potential transformation, within which new forms of political consciousness and collective agency are taking shape.
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The Party of Baristas

Gabriel Winant Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

Labor

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The Left Needs More Working-Class Leaders

Jake Triola Jacobin
A new report finds a massive divide between working-class voters and college-educated progressives. Closing it means handing working-class people real power over a left-wing program.

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They Cleaned Up Ground Zero. Now Many Are Hiding From ICE

Jasmine Gersd NPR
Women in profile in a living room. It's not known how many undocumented workers were involved in the 9/11 cleanup, but advocates say it's somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people. The fear of being picked up by Immigration has added to the PTSD which most of the group suffer.

Friday nite video

Things Get Weird at the GOP Midterm 'Convention'

Michael Kosta dives into the highlights, including Trump’s pledge to give out $5,000 "dividends" if the GOP wins the House and Senate and the president's unhelpful roast of Ken Paxton

Murdering 60 Minutes

What corporate consolidation and oligarch ownership mean for journalism, democracy, and the public’s access to independent information, and what the public can do to defend a free press