Cornell Students Protest Gang-Rape Mishandling

Hall housing Michael Kotlikoff’s office spray painted as demonstrators demand resignation of college president

The ‘War Games’ Problem: How To Keep AI Under Control

In the movie ‘War Games’ a young gamer unintentionally launches an AI into what it believes to be an exploration of the threat of nuclear war, but with the real threat of triggering nuclear Armageddon. Can it be stopped? Can it learn restraint?

This Week in People’s History, Oct 7–13, 2026

Illustration showing angry Sons of Liberty supporters meeting in New York City
The British attempt to tax North American colonists by forcing them to buy so-called tax stamps is a total failure; it succeeds in nothing but providing the advocates for independence with a reason to get organized, which they put to good use.

What if We Organized Survivors of Sexual Violence?

Survivors have the potential to be a political bloc that transforms the conditions that enable the scale of sexual violence in the United States.

US Brazil Meddling May Decide Latin America’s Future

Brazil’s presidential election is on a knife-edge. Right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro has powerful interests on his side but is also counting on the Trump administration’s help to push him over the line.

Superpowers Race To Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon

The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.

Why French Students Are Revolting

France’s education system is stretched to its limits, as student anger kicks off a hot fall protest season.

Why Is Fighting Intensifying in Yemen Taiz Governorate

Government forces fend off waves of Houthi attacks as civilians in the populous province are imperiled.

Trump Plan: Strip Resources From Low-Income Families

A better solution is to fully fund the Child Care and Development Fund instead of redirecting resources away from working families

How Monopoly Fascism Rose Again

A generation of Americans learned from Nazi Germany that monopolies fuel fascism. It’s time we relearned that lesson.
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Culture

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Food Stamp Catastrophe

Natalie Pattillo The Bittman Project
A distribution station of the Food Bank for New York City, 2025 In the wealthiest country on earth, we are experiencing a human-made nutrition crisis. Since H.R.1 (House Resolution) passed in July 2025, an estimated 5 million people, including 1.5 million children, have lost SNAP benefits.

poetry

[to be crippled means to be institutionalized]

Jennifer Bartlett
Connotation. Denotation. Few words have as many meanings as the word "cripple." Poet Jennifer Bartlett, a longtime disability justice activist, unpacks some of them for us.

books

The Elusive Harold Cruse

Paul Buhle Portside
Reviewer Buhle explores a new biography of one of the most important and controversial Black intellectuals of the 1960s.

Labor

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Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign Lit a Spark Beyond Elections

Eric Blanc Jacobin magazine
Electoral campaigns can feed workplace struggle by politicizing people, raising their expectations, bringing activists together, and giving them experience organizing others. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns did all four.

labor

It’s Time To Boycott Starbucks

Lisa Watson Inequality.org
Organizers with Starbucks Workers United have been trying to get a contract finalized for five years. Enough is enough.

labor

Mark Carney Is Taking Aim at Canada’s Labor Movement

Adam D. K. King Convergence
Mark Carney wants to make Canada a destination for global investment. His new omnibus bill casts the right to strike as an obstacle to the “national interest” — and organized labor as a barrier to national strength rather than its foundation.

labor

Video Game Workers Win First Contract at Microsoft-Owned Blizzard

Dan DiMaggio Labor Notes
Workers who make some of the world’s most popular video games, including World of Warcraft and Diablo, won their first union contracts in early September, in an important step forward for organizing in the tech industry.

Friday nite video

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Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall

The intended meaning of this classic -- if any -- is obscure, but the lasting impact of its brooding sense of impending catastrophe, or righteous settlement of debts, is huge. Many questions about tomorrow, and no clear answers.

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The Corruption at Starlink Is Shocking

The U.S. was supposed to spend $40 billion to build internet in rural America, then Elon Musk got a huge chunk of that money redirected to Starlink.

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Anthropic IPO Documents AI Risks

Anthropic’s leaked prospectus offers a fascinating glimpse into the transition to corporate adulthood, because little AI is growing up, and adulthood comes with bills, lawyers, insurers, customers and consequences.

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Pete Hegseth Purges Weirdos and Wimps

Pete Hegseth gets the Pentagon in line with God, and appoints a very strange new Holy Trinity. Plus, Donald Trump invents a new stereotype to mark Hispanic Heritage Month. 

video

The Radical Solution to our Rigged Tax Code

How exactly should we tax the rich? We lay out 3 specific ways to target and reduce the wealth gap in society, including taxing billionaires’ SuperPAC contributions.

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Naza | Documentary

Award-winning documentary, produced with the team behind the Zone of Interest and directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, includes testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders