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Will Netanyahu Escape His Reckoning?

David Remnick The New Yorker
In his bid for reëlection, the Israeli Prime Minister is doing everything in his power to smear his opponents and evade blame for the security fiasco of October 7th.

Call Me a Jacobin: France’s Students Are Defending Their Future

Elijah Dale Common Dreams
The American Revolution helped inspire France’s struggle for liberty. Now, France’s students are offering Americans an example we ought to consider: A generation can defend its future together instead of being told, one person at a time, to adjust it

Injustices Persist at Delaney Hall

Sophie Shepherd CounterPunch
“That was their cry for help,” Sally Pillay, director of The Mami Chelo Foundation, “It was beautiful organizing inside which we have not seen before….that collective resistance was fundamentally what brought about the light being shined on Delaney

The ‘War Games’ Problem: How To Keep AI Under Control

Deven Desai The Conversation
In the movie ‘War Games’ a young gamer unintentionally launches an AI into what it believes to be an exploration of the threat of nuclear war, but with the real threat of triggering nuclear Armageddon. Can it be stopped? Can it learn restraint?

This Week in People’s History, Oct 7–13, 2026

Portside
Illustration showing angry Sons of Liberty supporters meeting in New York City The British attempt to tax North American colonists by forcing them to buy so-called tax stamps is a total failure; it succeeds in nothing but providing the advocates for independence with a reason to get organized, which they put to good use.
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