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March 1, 2023

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not To Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit

Chloe Xiang VICE

OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?

March 1, 2023

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

Paula Tarnapol Whitacre Washington Independent Review of Books

This book draws from the once well-known Ku Klux Klan hearings before Congress in the early 1870s, during which witnesses recounted their experiences with post-Civil War white supremacist terrorism in the Southern states.

March 1, 2023

The GOP’s Grand Immigration Con Job

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report

Republicans have figured out how to have it both ways. They get cheap labor for their big business buddies, while stoking the hate and fear of their white racist base

March 1, 2023

Brandon Johnson Is Heading to Chicago’s Mayoral Runoff as a Champion of the Working Class

Miles Kampf-Lassin Jacobin

The results of last night’s Chicago mayor election were stunning: former Chicago Teachers Union organizer Brandon Johnson advanced to an April runoff against neoliberal architect Paul Vallas — pitting working-class power against austerity.

March 1, 2023

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

Hannah Dreier The New York Times

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.

March 1, 2023

UAW Leadership Faces Historic Upheaval Ahead of Union Negotiations With Detroit Automakers

Michael Wayland CNBC

As the United Auto Workers prepares for what are expected to be highly contentious negotiations with the Detroit automakers later this year, the union’s leadership is undergoing its largest upheaval in decades.

March 1, 2023

Global Left Midweek – Indigenous in the World

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Reports and analyses from the world left's hot spots

March 21, 2014

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OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not To Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

The GOP’s Grand Immigration Con Job

Brandon Johnson Is Heading to Chicago’s Mayoral Runoff as a Champion of the Working Class

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

UAW Leadership Faces Historic Upheaval Ahead of Union Negotiations With Detroit Automakers

Global Left Midweek – Indigenous in the World

Friday Nite Videos -- March 21, 2014

The Myth of the American Dream

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