8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

Both the police crackdowns at Columbia University and elsewhere, and the propaganda that enabled it resembled scenes from an authoritarian foreign country. So we wrote about them as if they were.

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One does not need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-US game plan for Gaza runs something like this: 1. In public, Biden appears “tough”

Libertarians argue that capitalism is superior to socialism because in capitalism anyone is free to do anything — including start a worker cooperative. In truth, capitalism constrains our options, while socialism can liberate us to live as we please.

Trans persons and the trans community are being slandered the same way homosexual men were slandered in the 70s, and for the same reason: to deny them safety and equal rights.

Content moderators warn that Elon Musk doesn’t appear to understand the issues that he and the company will face if he drops its guardrails around speech.

Exaggerating the harms of inflation doesn’t help working people.

Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs both want the same land. And a compromise has proven difficult to find.

AI could even out the playing field in recruitment – except that it’s trained by humans.

The left-wing U.S. newsroom, a hub for pro-Palestinian coverage, is scrambling for funding.

It’s time to face facts. #FarRight leaders have a firm grip on #power in Turkey, Hungary, Italy and more; Trump’s polling lead in America is growing; the lea...

Protesters believe they cannot change Hamas, but they might be able to change their own government.

And also takes the opportunity to bad-mouth Tesla’s self-driving AI.

Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October

Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October.

Roughly equal numbers of readers have positive or negative views of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in an online poll this month. The details are revealing

After last week the label seems not just acceptable, but necessary.

An investigation into Bill Gates’s philanthropic interventions questions the efficacy of his work and asks what gives him the legitimacy to intervene in public policy. It argues that we have become too accepting of his wealth and influence, and we must instead challenge his power.

Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology’s new norm.

Not every thing the company says is completely candid.

Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate?

A study by the Angus Reid Institute has found that favourability of Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre decreases the more educated one is.

Pierre Trudeau famously said, "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Now, more than half a century later, why does the otherwise freedom-obsessed Pierre Poilievre keep

In his new book, economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that we’re living under a new form of feudalism.