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How are authoritarians using artificial intelligence for political repression? Steven Feldstein on the global spread of anti-democratic applications for innovative technologies.

The United Auto Workers is refusing to endorse Joe Biden until he commits to backing an electric vehicle transition that creates good union jobs. The union’s new reform leadership is absolutely right to hold Biden’s feet to the fire.

Succession's idea of a media executive personally picking a winner is no longer all that shocking. The recent defamation lawsuit Fox News settled revealed that Rupert Murdoch had been directly involved in making calls for the network.

The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.

Data on what's new — and why unions should turn to new organizing

Technically, drone technology has been around for quite a long time, going back to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. It is only in the last two decades when drones have been weaponized with guns, bombs, and missiles.

Matching programs give small donors bigger voices.

If life emerged once, why not more times?

El Jefe, one of at least seven jaguars documented north of the border since 1996, became a powerful symbol for environmentalists, Native tribes, and others who vehemently oppose both mining and border wall construction in remote areas.

For existentialism, the choice for oneself is the choice for a world, for commitment to a plural world. Returning to Sartre today means not accepting the distracted somnambulism of our societies, because we have only one life and only one planet.