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Playing With Academic Fire

Hatim Kanaaneh Jadaliyya
This study of three late 1940s kibbutzim, writes reviewer Kanaaneh, “analyzes how these so-called leftist settlements” related to their Palestinian neighbors in “the land and the farming villages that were then wiped out of existence.”

Mamdani Returns From Uganda and Visits Slain Officer’s Family

Emma G. Fitzsimmons The New York Times
Mr. Mamdani will address the shooting at a news conference with two groups whose members had been killed in the attack: 32BJ SEIU and the Bangladeshi American Police Association. The press conference will be held at the 32BJ headquarters.

The Ideology of Artificial Intelligence

João Camargo Common Dreams
The AI hype is essentially propaganda, the main purpose of which is to accelerate layoffs, to fuel financial speculation, and to divert investment and resources toward a new jump into the abyss by economic and political elites.

Confront or Cave? Federal Pressure Splits the Building Trades

Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Keith Brower Brown Labor Notes
One week into President Donald Trump’s first term, top building trades officers were chumming it up in the Oval Office, celebrating a reboot of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. But when Trump returned to office this year, things were very different.

The Undeniable Greatness of Jaws

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Jaws is rightly celebrated as a landmark, generation-defining hit. But it’s not sufficiently recognized as a great 1970s film, exemplifying that rocky decade’s political ire, acerbic social critique, and the lingering practices of realist cinema movi