Tax AI To Create Jobs

Greg Casar The American Prospect
We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it. An AI tax should target the companies that stand to make billions of dollars by laying people off.

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Reader Comments: Close Delaney Hall, Release Detainees; Pope's Encyclical; Future and Soul of Democratic Party; 60 Minutes Blowup; Data Centers Suck Water, Electricity; Submit Public Comment To Save Science; Israeli War Criminals at Israel Day Parade

The System Is Broken, We Have Had Enough

International Transport Workers Federation
World’s seafarers’ and dockers’ unions demand immediate end to seafarer humanitarian crisis - call for governments to confront the Flag of Convenience system that enables exploitation and fails to protect seafarers.

The Return of the Dixiecrat South

Jacob S. Hacker, Zoltan Hajnal, G. Agustin Markarian and Mackenzie Lockhart The American Prospect
In the pre-1960s South, which Supreme Court Republicans have just brought back from the dead, Black citizens have no voice in federal lawmaking.

A Socialist Is Taking On the Dem Establishment in Syracuse

Interview with Maurice Brown by Roman Broszkowski Jacobin
Socialist Maurice Brown has served as a county legislator in the Syracuse area since 2024. Now he is running to replace one of the New York State Assembly’s longest-serving members, who Brown describes as an obstacle to progressive change.