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Cory Doctorow warns of "enshittification," where tech companies degrade services for profit, harming users and workers amid mass layoffs. He urges tech employees to unionize for better wages, job security, and ethical influence, countering monopolie

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We cannot repeat the slow death of Oslo nor replace Hamas with another detached faction, but instead rethink the foundations of our political culture. As Gazans, we have paid an unimaginably heavy price for the October 7 attacks...

The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns. Occasional actions that simply protest a particular policy or egregious action aren’t enough.

It’s a confounding time to be Muslim in this country. A degree of Muslim culture I would have never thought possible when I was a kid is now imbued in the lexicon of Americans. I’m still a little shocked every time I hear non-Muslims say “inshallah.”

Last Saturday brought out about seven million Americans in joyous protest. How to turn protest to power? The hopeful news is that Americans in all parts of the country demonstrated energy, resolve, and solidarity.

Reanimating the heart of democracy

100,000 New Zealand workers strike for better pay and working conditions.

Taking a comparative approach based on global case studies, this is an incisive and important contribution to the understanding of democracy’s evolving institutional challenges, writes Samira Allioui.

New rule would prohibit states from banning dangerous chemicals, and could invalidate hundreds of protections