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It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

Now that Biden and Congress have ended pandemic protections, nearly a million have lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons so far — and many more will.

Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers.

The group isn’t required under law to disclose its donors even as it takes on the look of a political party

No one can define it, much less fully replicate it.

Our society values health care and education in theory, but it constantly undermines them in practice. Public sector workers feel that discrepancy most acutely. They’re striking to force our society to put its money where its mouth is.

You’re okay, Computer — it’s the corporations that aren’t.

Hopefully, West’s supporters will prevail upon him to undertake his fight in the most effective arena that currently exists, where the greatest light-to-heat potential lies – the primaries.

The greatest immediate risk presented to humanity by AI is not robotic control of military weapons, but its application within the logic of capitalism—an alignment that will further relegate human needs as secondary to market forces.

We praise charity efforts to combat climate change in countries like Bangladesh as generous, without critiquing why they are made necessary in the first place.