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The Unlikely History of Israel Bonds
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (559+ words) How a little-known investment vehicle became a major source of financing for Israel'and a flash point in New York State politics....
Brainless: Artificial Intelligence
5+ hour, 44+ min ago (17+ words) The promise of AI comes with risks'from misinformation and bias to the erosion of human agency....
We Can't Let the Good Vibes Stop Us From Demanding More of Mamdani
9+ hour, 15+ min ago (126+ words) Mamdani's Knicks speech was exhilarating, but we can't let these kinds of spectacles prevent us from pressuring politicians to do better....
Mapping the Unsung History of Puerto Rican Resistance
9+ hour, 15+ min ago (500+ words) Hunter College students explore the story of El Barrio using the new app Radical Atmospheres....
The Last Thing US Healthcare Needs Is an AI Takeover
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (91+ words) We fear that healthcare will become even more financialized as our systems become more deeply entangled with the AI bubble and the speculative investments that accompany it....
Lyn Hejinian's Republic of Readers
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (24+ words) In the poet's last work, Lola the Interpreter, she treats her readers as true interlocutors, inviting them into the act of interpretation alongside her....
What Should Be Done With America's Slave Mansions?
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (201+ words) A case for reimagining plantations'the engines of centuries of oppression'as laboratories for economic justice....
The American Fantasy of Cuba
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (218+ words) We want to see Cuba as the pleasure colony of the past. Today, it's more of a country on the brink of collapse....
Lessons From the People's Historian, Howard Zinn
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (188+ words) His take on history arms youth with the courage to "transform the world." It's no wonder the right aims to erase it....
How Children Became a City's Lead Detectors
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (1412+ words) In Milwaukee, a child's blood test is too often the first housing inspection....