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Blade Runner is a movie about what it is to be human in a world of artificial humans.
Systems are failing. What will replace them?
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Why the war in Africa’s Great Lakes is entering its fourth decade and may never end.
What happens when an AI values its own survival?
Climate denialists want federal judges to remain in the dark while the state of scientific research continues to decline
Large methane emissions are easy to detect and often fairly easy to contain, yet few of the big sinning countries are taking action.
RFK, Jr. wants to wean many Americans off antidepressants. How sound are his views?
Israel helps manufacture the myth of an "Islamic Invasion of the West," which the far right uses to distract from systemic Western crises
The election of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the surprising performance of Democratic Socialist or DSA-aligned candidates in Democratic primaries across the United States is reviving interest in socialism as a conce...
Capitalism comes in many flavors. Sadly, the neoliberal one that has become dominant is particularly rancid.