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Silicon Valley tech billionaires hold fanciful ideas. For example, many believe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be realized in the very near future and its achievement will usher in an

More than 15,000 teenagers answered a call from Nima Tekido, an entertainment producer and YouTube personality, to attend an event at Iran Mall in Tehran in July 2026. Although only

The US government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly—not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence. Washington is rapidly losing power and status

Introduction Black British MP Diane Abbott has recently been readmitted to the UK Labour Party having been excluded for expressing – in historical terms – a fairly standard explanation of

Abstract: Drawing on world-systems theory and a structural (rather than territorial) theory of empire — the “Imperial Outreach” framework developed in this author’s earlier ZNetwork essays — this piece argues

Drawing on a pair of visualizations found in two well-known books of history, this sketch aims to reinforce a certain way of seeing past incarnations of the Left in the

Nonviolent solutions are everywhere! Tens of thousands of people are joining the annual Campaign Nonviolence Action Days from September 21 to October 2. For 13 years, Campaign Nonviolence has been rallying tens

Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, on the surface it may seem that American foreign policy has followed a course filled with continuity. A quarter century

When it comes to data centers, Americans are increasingly polling like a Dr. Seuss book. We would not like them here or there. We would not like them anywhere. Across partisan lines,

Is revolution a single event? Or is it a process? Perhaps a process made possible by the many gaining certain invaluable insights into their own conditions in relation to society’s

Dolly Parton, Wendell Berry, Cassandra Wilson, Gloria Steinem. The rat-a-tat-tat of death doesn’t stop. My inbox has become a memory mosaic in which diverse remembrances and celebrations mix. While it

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