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Is this big AI push supposed to help the U.S. kill more Iranian kids? To help school shooters kill kids at home? Or just to fill the internet with rubbish? We need better answers to this question.

Here's looking at you, kid

In a speech marking his first 100 days as New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani describes his administration’s accomplishments so far and champions “pothole politics,” a 21st-century version of Milwaukee’s proud tradition of sewer socialism.

Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán combined talk of defending Hungary’s traditions with a promise of prosperity. When he stopped delivering workers good economic news, culture-war messaging wasn’t enough to save him.

The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights present an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.

Starting Civil War (1861), U.S. Out of Vietnam! (1966), France Bullies Haiti into the Poorhouse (1826), Milwaukee’s Successful Socialist Mayor (1916), ‘Give Us the Vote!’ (1866), A Megalomaniac’s Birthday (1939), Sipping-In for LGBTQ+ Rights (1966)

As the world’s food supply rushes to accommodate eight and a half billion mouths, scientists pioneer techniques to prevent post-harvest loss, not just react to it. Global food security can often hinge on forces barely larger than a grain of rice.

“I think the question is, why has D.S.A. been able to build a really durable organization over the last decade? What Tascha brought was a sensibility about how to treat people and how to relate to people that is now built into the DNA of D.S.A.”

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

The heart’s faint magnetic signals can’t be detected at large distances, researchers say