Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios. We shouldn’t forget ...
It used to be that Americans turned to GoFundMe to pay off their medical bills in a dysfunctional, privatized health care ...
Intelligence agencies like the CIA have been cultivating ties with universities for decades. They use money and influence to co-opt research and foster a benign image of their role at the expense of ...
Plenty of contemporary comedy gazes upon American stupidity and concludes that Americans are stupid. The Chapo Trap House ...
Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May ...
Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His ...
The primary in France’s Parti Socialiste will not likely pick the winner of the 2027 presidential election. But it will decide whether the party seeks compromise on the Left, or else directs its fire ...
US leaders have generally sought to cloak their imperialism with euphemistic rhetoric, but Trump has dropped any pretense ...
Electricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this ...
Cleaning work is often called low-skilled, perhaps because it’s usually done by low-waged women. In an interview, a cleaner ...
Americans across the partisan divide seem increasingly fed up with school voucher schemes, which funnel public funds to ...
The primacy of the dollar is considered one of the pillars of American might, conferring exorbitant financial privileges and ...