The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All
While experts warn about the risk of human extinction, the Department of Defense plows full speed ahead.
Dec 6, 2023 / Michael T. Klare
Hélène Cixous, a Poet Among Theorists Hélène Cixous, a Poet Among Theorists
In Well-Kept Ruins, a key example of her late style, a hybrid and dreamlike form of social theory comes into focus.
Dec 6, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Ariel Porte
Siddhartha Deb and the Politics of Fiction Siddhartha Deb and the Politics of Fiction
A conversation with the novelist and journalist about India, colonialism, the Union Carbide catastrophe, solidarity, history in literature, and his novel, The Light at the End of ...
Dec 6, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Feroz Rather
The House of Representatives Rules That Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism The House of Representatives Rules That Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
After a more than four-hour hearing of the House Education and Workforce committee, the resolution passed, with only 14 votes against it.
Dec 5, 2023 / Chris Lehmann
The “Friends of the IDF” Gala Was Like a Rich Kid’s Bar Mitzvah—Until the Protest Started The “Friends of the IDF” Gala Was Like a Rich Kid’s Bar Mitzvah—Until the Protest Started
Pro-IDF revelers were getting drunk, dancing, and bidding on VIP passes to Shaq’s Fun House. (Really.) But anti-Zionist Israeli activists had other plans.
Dec 5, 2023 / Sophie Hurwitz
How Zionism Feeds Antisemitism How Zionism Feeds Antisemitism
Our best hope against antisemitism is to defeat Israel’s dual campaign to raze Gaza and bind our fate as Jews to that insidious project.
Dec 5, 2023 / Dave Zirin
Scott Walker’s Anti-Union Law Could Be Undone by a Court That Respects the Constitution Scott Walker’s Anti-Union Law Could Be Undone by a Court That Respects the Constitution
A right-wing state Supreme Court upheld the Wisconsin governor’s assault on workers. But the court now has a progressive majority and unions are challenging the law.
Dec 5, 2023 / John Nichols
Big Oil Runs the Climate Change Conference Big Oil Runs the Climate Change Conference
And the fox guards the hen house?
Dec 5, 2023 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
“Let’s Wait Till Israel Says Something”: Why the Media Has Failed the Test of the War in Gaza “Let’s Wait Till Israel Says Something”: Why the Media Has Failed the Test of the War in Gaza
A dispatch from the front lines of the information war.
Dec 5, 2023 / Razia Iqbal
Speaking Up for Palestine Can Be Hard, but It’s Never Been More Necessary Speaking Up for Palestine Can Be Hard, but It’s Never Been More Necessary
It is unquestionably risky to show support for Palestinians. But the bigger risk is saying nothing at all.
Dec 5, 2023 / Rebecca Ruth Gould