A new campaign just launched called Drop The Genocide 20. It demands banning the leading officials from the Biden administration most responsible for Gaza policy since October 7, 2023. Every person with a policy background should sign the pledge to keep these genocidaires away from the halls of power.
The Nation platformed a project at the Center for Working Class Politics tracking four key working-class candidates running as Democrats for the mid-term elections—here’s how they’re doing and what it means for the popularity of economic populism and whether we’re really in a left populist moment.
Public debate has been consumed with the question of whether artificial intelligence will destroy the world. But that debate distracts from the real ways in which AI is ending the world right now—by destroying critical thinking capacities, by deskilling white-collar workers, by inflating the worst financial bubble in economic history...and according to a new MIT research paper, causing “cognitive surrender” in students who are addicted to using AI to avoid the difficulty of learning.
Finally, a new big report in The International Policy Journal makes an airtight case for why New Zealand should become a model for non-offensive defense; avoid acquiring naval frigates; and foreclose on multilateral warfighting with the United States. At stake is whether a small trading nation succumbs to empire or is capable of the independent foreign policy it’s prided itself on for decades.
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