Rumbles on the right, AI hype
Kathryn Joyce on the far right and its internal battles and Edward Ongweso Jr on tech, AI, and Luddism
Behind the News
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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Fundraising special: class struggle in rail and higher ed
Intercept reporter Ryan Grim, author of this article, on the fight between workers and bosses in the rail industry, and economist Sanjay Reddy on the fight between adjuncts and bosses in the neoliberal university.
Fundraising special: the history of fitness culture in the US
Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on her new book, Fit Nation, a history of physical culture in the US. Plus fundraising pleas.
The right reinvents its approach to schools, and black communist women of the 20th century
Jennifer Berkshire on the latest version of right-wing school politics (since the last versions haven’t been working for them), and Jodi Dean, co-editor (along with Charisse Burden-Stelly) of Organize, Fight, Win, a collection of black communist women’s writings from the late 1920s into the early 1950s.
COP27 climate conference and masculinity and imperial violence
Environmental journalist Tina Gerhardt on the COP27 climate conference, and Lyle Jeremy Rubin, author of Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, on masculinity, the Marines, and imperial violence
Politics in the US after the election, racism and social democracy
Jodi Dean on the political landscape in the wake of last week’s election, and Tobias Hübinette, author of this article, on the role of immigration the backlash against Swedish social democracy.
Joel Schalit talks about the return of Bibi Netanyahu in Israel; Mohammad Salemy, about the tripartite structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran; and Megan Kinch, about a labor upsurge in Ontario. photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Elections in Brazil, uprising in Iran
Political economist Alfredo Saad-Filho on the Brazilian elections, and Mina Khani and Mohammad Salemy on the women-led uprising in Iran.
Jamieson Webster, author of this article, examines what severe psychological distress among adolescents is telling us about American society, and Raina Lipsitz, author of The Rise of a New Left, looks at the history, personnel, and status of today’s radicalism. photo: Paola Chaaya via Unsplash
Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute explains why Saudi Arabia cut its oil production dramatically, and James Meadway, former adviser to Jeremy Corbyn and now director of the Progressive Economy Forum, explains why Britain is in economic and political crisis. photo: Robin Sommer via Unsplash