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DeepMind’s AlphaCode outperforms many human programmers in tricky software challenges

You wouldn’t know it from the widespread glorification of America’s “founding fathers,” but the years around American independence were shot through with class conflict between elites and working people. And most of the founding fathers were on the wrong side.

On “Repeal Day,” remember that the war against alcohol was ultimately a war against political corruption and unbridled capitalism.

He didn’t give rail workers paid leave in legislation. But he can still do it through an executive order.

The bill headed to Biden’s desk includes a religious exemption that sets a troublesome precedent, not only for LGBTQ rights but possibly for all legislation.

Georgia Yes! Raphael Warnock put Georgia on our minds, and Georgia delivered. Portside works to put the most important issues on our minds every day. Once a year, we ask for your help to do so. This is that time.

Catholic radical Louis J. Twomey’s labor institute at Loyola University New Orleans trained a generation of workers for class struggle. A new union drive among the university’s food service workers draws on that legacy of the best of Catholic trade unionism.

In this small-screen adaptation of Octavia Butler’s novel, a 21st-century woman has to protect her slave-owning ancestor

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