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.
Subpoenas on the Menu
The White House correspondents’ dinner is about to get weird(er). Plus, getting conned all over Texas.
us/Big Tech Joins Big Oil in Ruining Summer
us/ Big Tech Joins Big Oil in Ruining Summer The industry has abandoned its climate pledges in favor of fossil fuel-powered AI data centers.
Palestine Solidarity in the South African Mirror
Looking at the Palestine solidarity campaign through the prism of the South African anti-apartheid movement, this paper identifies strategies to put pressure on the Israeli regime from the outside.
Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
Darline Graham Is Maneuvering Herself Into a Full Senate Term
Originally a temporary fill-in giving Republicans a chance to sort out their options, Lindsey Graham’s sister seems to be making a power move.
No Way Home: An Anarchist Ex-Prisoner’s Response to Fire Ant Movement Defense
A statement from Eric King, an anarchist and former political prisoner who spent nearly a decade behind bars, in response to the statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense.
How AI Is Rewriting Human Nature
Looking in the mirror each morning at my permanently fatigued face, I start my day with a gulp of apple cider vinegar and a vitamin pill. I move on through a box of sardines and a grapefruit, some dense rye bread, some brown yogurt ( ryazhenka ) and cashew nuts.
Range anxiety
The storm developed quickly over west central Illinois on April 17th, first as a single high-intensity system called a supercell, and then later that evening transforming into a long squall line of …
Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey, Film Adaptations, and Translation
In this episode of Private Life, Daniel Mendelsohn joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss his 2025 translation of Homer’s Odyssey and Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film adaptation, premiering this week.
Manufacturing Revolt
In April, a wave of strikes swept through the National Capital Region around Delhi.
Why the right is so mad about the ending of The Boys
It parodied Trump's death, but their anger goes deeper than that.
Don Nonini: How is Workers’ Labor Power “Inside” Yet “Beyond” Capital?
Reading Don’s Value and Worthlessness (hereafter VAW)has been one of the peak experiences of my intellectual life. VAW promises to become one of the key texts in the Marxist anthropology of the 21.
Parallel Universes
Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing …
