Macklemore is Taking On a Powerful Machine
There’s no such thing as an “apolitical” artist in a time of genocide.
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Service Members Should Refuse to Fight Trump’s Illegal Wars
Attacking Iran serves America’s rulers, not its people. Are military leaders going to get away with sending you to another pointless war?
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If You Think Your Product Could Wipe Out Humanity, It Shouldn’t Exist
Whether or not it will bring about our extinction, AI clearly risks causing many kinds of catastrophic harms. Why are we giving ruthless private companies such power to shape the human future?
We’re Living In the World That Milton Friedman Made
You can’t understand what’s wrong with the 21st century without confronting the High Priest of the Invisible Hand.
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9/11 Began 25 Years of Nonstop War and Abuses of Power by Pam Bailey
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John Fetterman Needs to Resign by Alex Skopic
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Children Deserve the Right to Hug Their Incarcerated Parents by Chesa Boudin
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The Classic Revolutionary Film America Suppressed by Matthew Hatchett
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Dan Osborn: “I’m Not Interested in Talking to the CEOs” by Current Affairs
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Dave Ramsey Says Capitalism’s Failings Are Actually Your Fault by Rob Larson
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“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” as Meta-Meta-Slasher by RS Benedict
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Mohammed El-Kurd on the Politics of the “Perfect Victim” by Current Affairs
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You Wanted a More Brutal World by Nathan J. Robinson