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April 6, 2019

How Class Should Be Central

Eric Blanc, Jeremy Gong Jacobin

A strategic focus on uniting the working class doesn’t mean marginalizing the struggle against racism and sexism.

April 6, 2019

UIC Graduate Workers End Strike After 2 Weeks on Picket Line

Nader Issa Chicago Sun-Times

The three-year tentative contract agreement ensures pay hikes, cheaper health care and other financial gains for the workers represented by the UIC Graduate Employees Organization.

April 6, 2019

When Socialism Was Tried in America—and Was a Smashing Success

John Nichols The Nation

For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists—and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”

April 6, 2019

Congress Invokes Powers to Challenge Trump on War in Yemen

Susannah George AP

“The president will have to face the reality that Congress is no longer going to ignore its constitutional obligations when it comes to foreign policy,” said Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

April 6, 2019

The Aid Paradox: U.S. Security and Development Assistance in Central America

Laura Weiss North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)

U.S. assistance has caused great harm in Central America. But Trump’s decision to cut it off is nothing to celebrate. He seeks to deprive Central Americans of all options, suffocating legal pathways to migration, while cutting much needed resources.

April 5, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | April 5, 2019

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Trevor Noah Interviews Bernie Sanders. Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach. You Won’t Believe What Obama Says in This Video! Faces Places | Movie. Attorney General Barr Is Caught in a Double Mueller Bind.

April 5, 2019

Artificial Intelligence Can Now Emulate Human Behaviors – Soon It Will Be Dangerously Good

Ana Santos Rutschman The Conversation

Giving researchers and companies freedom to explore, in order to seek positive achievements from AI systems, means opening up the risk of developing more advanced ways to create deception and other social problems

Bernie Sanders - A Progressive Agenda for the 2020 Presidential Race

April 5, 2019

Senator Bernie Sanders talks about his emergence as the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner, fighting for single-payer health care and tackling income inequality.

Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach

April 5, 2019

Google celebrated the renowned German composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach with their first ever AI-powered Doodle. The Doodle is an interactive experience that encourages players to compose a two measure melody of their choice. The Doodle then uses machine learning to harmonize the custom melody into Bach’s signature music style. More on the promise and risks of AI.

You Won’t Believe What Obama Says in This Video!

April 5, 2019

"We're entering an era in which our enemies can make anyone say anything at any point in time." More on the promise and risks of AI.