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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

The Antitrust Lessons of the OpenAI Saga The Antitrust Lessons of the OpenAI Saga

The high-stakes battle for control of the tech start-up was a case study in the corporate strategy of vertical outsourcing. 

Dec 12, 2023 / Brian Callaci

Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It.

Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It. Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It.

A plan to build back better.

Dec 12, 2023 / Feature / John Nichols

Workers at the Chicago Defender in the 1960s. The paper chronicled the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement.

One Big Cookout: From the “Negro Press” to Black Twitter One Big Cookout: From the “Negro Press” to Black Twitter

We always suspected that whatever magazines and newspapers for white folks weren’t telling us, Black newspapers and magazines would.

Dec 12, 2023 / Feature / Gene Seymour

The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement

The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement

Culture / Books & the Arts / December 12, 2023 More Than a Natural Function The politics of birth. The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement Though it res…

Dec 12, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Moira Donegan

Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead

The new biopic about the socialist organizer stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out?

Dec 12, 2023 / Column / Adolph Reed Jr.

Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh bids a heart-wrenching farewell to his wife, son, and daughter during their funeral service in the heart of Gaza's Nuseirat camp.

It’s Time for Gaza’s Journalists to Be Treated Like the Heroes They Are It’s Time for Gaza’s Journalists to Be Treated Like the Heroes They Are

They are reporting under unimaginable difficulties and being killed in record numbers. The journalistic community should be honoring them every day.

Dec 12, 2023 / Nadia Taha

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the funeral for Sgt. Maj. Gal Meir Eisenkot at the Herzliya cemetery on December 8, 2023.

Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas

The Israeli prime minister followed a decades-old divide-and-rule strategy that fuels endless war.

Dec 11, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Around the World, Authoritarians Are Rising

Around the World, Authoritarians Are Rising Around the World, Authoritarians Are Rising

From Argentina to the Netherlands, democracies are crumbling.

Dec 11, 2023 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

The Algorithm Oligarchy

The Algorithm Oligarchy The Algorithm Oligarchy

How the Internet produced the age of monopoly platforms.

Dec 11, 2023 / Feature / Colleen Tighe

The Big Unfriendly Tech Giants

The Big Unfriendly Tech Giants The Big Unfriendly Tech Giants

We must ensure that corporations aren’t able to pick and choose winners and losers in journalism.

Dec 11, 2023 / Feature / Zephyr Teachout

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