Tag: politics

• ‘We want to build a life’: Europe’s paperless young people speak out

  December 5, 2020

  A generation of undocumented Europeans – inspired by the ‘Dreamers’ in the US – are fighting for residency rights.  Europe has its own dreamer generation, but unlike the US Dreamers,… more ›

• Hundreds of Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru

  December 4, 2020

  Hundreds of Google employees and more than 1,000 academic researchers are speaking out in protest after a prominent Black scientist studying the ethics of artificial intelligence said she was fired… more ›

• Exchange value

  December 1, 2020

  The new and emergent global financial system will be overwhelming in scale and complexity. It will exert an unprecedented influence over the daily lives of everyone on the planet. more ›

• Nayarit and the Making of a Narco State

  November 29, 2020

  Nayarit rarely makes the headlines in Mexico, far less in the rest of the world. But this fall, the arrest of Mexico’s former secretary of defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda,… more ›

• Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok

  November 29, 2020

  Mexico is set to shatter another murder record, but that grim reality is nowhere to be seen on the TikTok videos that go viral by showcasing drug cartel culture.  “It’s… more ›

• Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy

  November 22, 2020

  In an exclusive interview, the former president identifies the greatest threats to the American experiment, explains why he’s still hopeful, and opens up about his new book. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-obama-fears-for-our-democracy/617087/ more ›

• The Clash of Capitalisms

  November 22, 2020

  Capitalism rules the world. With only the most minor exceptions, the entire globe now organizes economic production the same way: labor is voluntary, capital is mostly in private hands, and… more ›

• Far right seizing COVID-19 ‘opportunity’ to expand: Study

  November 20, 2020

  Far-right individuals in Europe and the United States are increasingly forming global links and using the coronavirus pandemic to attract anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists to their cause, a study commissioned by… more ›

• Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1 million miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix

  November 11, 2020

  In its first report on its autonomous vehicle operations in Phoenix, Arizona, Waymo said that it was involved in 18 crashes and 29 near-miss collisions during 2019 and the first… more ›

• State of Surveillance

  November 11, 2020

  In 2015, a national policy document issued by nine different Party and government bureaucracies called for “public safety video-surveillance construction, networking, and applications” across China. The policy described such surveillance systems as… more ›