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Life Under the Algorithm

Gabriel Winant The New Republic
How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

Why Top Democrat Snubs Fight Against Deadly “Cancer Alley” Pollution

Oliver Laughland and Emily Holden The Guardian
Mary Hampton and Robert Taylor in DC.
Cedric Richmond is a rising Democratic Party star and co-chair of Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign. The African American congressman is also one of the highest Democratic Party recipients of donations from the oil, gas and chemicals industries.

Chinese Style Capitalism: Its Strengths Are Also Its Vulnerabilities

Walden Bello Foreign Policy in Focus
Workers at an Apple factory in China.
China’s economy might be called “capitalism with Chinese characteristics,” not “socialism with Chinese characteristics” as Deng Xiaoping described it. Most unique is a Communist Party structure that parallels the government structure at all levels.

Friday Nite Videos | October 25, 2019

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Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Politics and 2020. Jojo Rabbit | Movie. Colbert Gets a Surprise Visit From Rudy Giuliani. Demonstrating Quantum Supremacy. Lebanon Protests: 'I Feel Proud to Be Lebanese.'

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Politics and 2020

In a wide-ranging conversation before the rally in Queens on Saturday, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke with Ryan Grim about the power of grassroots movements, the importance of electing progressives to Congress, health care, foreign policy and more.

Jojo Rabbit | Movie

Writer director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople), brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, Jojo Rabbit, a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis as JoJo) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

Demonstrating Quantum Supremacy

A major milestone in quantum computing research opens up new possibilities for this technology. The Google AI Quantum team demonstrated how a quantum computer can perform a task no classical computer can in an experiment called "quantum supremacy."