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Bernie Sanders on Why Superintelligent AI Is an Existential Threat That Needs To Be Banned

The rapid development of AI is far outpacing regulation, and experts warn that all of humanity could be under threat. There's no doubt that we need to take a pause.

Bernie Sanders

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Tech Authoritarian Doomsayers

The Silicon Valley hyper-rich elite are aiming to undo democracy—and modern society—for their own profit. The only problem? There are far more of us than them.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI

Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.

Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas

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9/11/2001: I Was a Freshman in Alabama, I Wore a Hijab

Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, Gowayed writes that "the hate feels louder than it has ever been, more entitled and more brazen. I’m terrified of what the coming decades will bring."

Heba Gowayed

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25 Years After 9/11, How Do We Build a Movement To Stop Forever Wars?

As Trump wages an unpopular war with Iran, historian Jeremy Varon discusses what we can learn from the movement that turned the tide against the Iraq War.

Mark Engler

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How The War on Terror Continues To Terrorize Communities 25 Years Later

Twenty five years after the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent.

Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani

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AI Is Coming for All of Our Jobs

The development of artificial intelligence technology is set to disrupt virtually every industry, every profession and every employment sector.

Martin Ford

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Cannabis Is Capitalism’s Next Fix

The legal weed boom is just the first stop on capital’s search for a new frontier.

Kojo Koram

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Unions Should Hop on the DSA Train

It’s high time for the labor movement to join forces with the democratic socialists winning elections by putting workers over capital.

Hamilton Nolan

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Co-Governance and the Next 250 Years of American Democracy

As we mark the United States’ 250th anniversary, experiments in co-governance point the way toward making our democracy actually work for working people.

Liz Sullivan-Yuknis and Anna Canning

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It's Time to Topple the AI Oligarchy

The fight to halt data center construction is gaining steam—and it’s part of a broader effort to make artificial intelligence work for the public that gave rise to the technology, rather than a billionaire elite.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Congress Has a Responsibility to Reverse the Water Crisis It Caused in Puerto Rico

Federal neglect—and restrictive aid conditions—have broken the infrastructure meant to sustain human life in the Caribbean U.S. colony.

Coenia Sanchez

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Make No Mistake—The Left Is on a Winning Streak

Before the votes had even been counted, some were treating the results in Michigan as a defeat for the Left. This is hard to square with the fact that well beyond Abdul El-Sayed’s win, progressives and socialists won major races.

Branko Marcetic

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ICE Is Conducting a Reign of Terror

ICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.

Mitchell Zimmerman

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What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15

Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.

Rand Wilson and Peter Olney

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Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”

How incarceration and labor are bound together.

Calvin John Smiley

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The Possibilities of Grief as a Rupture

Abolition Judaism and rethinking the holiday of Tisha B’Av

Andrue Kahn and Dania Rajendra

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Working People Are Being Fleeced to Pay for a Bloated Military Budget

While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits—and the farmers who fed them—are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon.

Danaka Katovich

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Don’t Look Away from Cuba

The indictment of Raul Castro is the latest in a string of escalations aimed at building pretext for a U.S. invasion of the island nation.

Chris Mills Rodrigo

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On America's 250th Anniversary, Democracy Is On the Ropes

The Trump administration is attacking the foundations of our democracy—but Americans are increasingly fighting back.

Mitchell Zimmerman

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No One Should Be in Jail Because They’re Poor

On America’s 250th anniversary, we must confront the issues of bail, democracy and the unfinished promise of democracy.

Jeremy Cherson

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Socialists Are Tearing Through the Democratic Party Establishment

After New York’s Democratic primary shockwaves, there is no doubt: democratic socialism is on the march in the U.S.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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How Resisting Trumpism Could Revive the U.S. Labor Movement

The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights presents an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.

Stephen Lerner and Joseph A. McCartin

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The Reproductive Justice Movement Must Be Expansive Under a Second Trump Term

With a federal Republican trifecta, the reproductive and disability justice movements need each other more than ever.

Regina Mahone