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Mike Beggs, co-author of The Blueprint, on what a socialist economy might look like

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Rodrigo Nunes, author of Anatomy of Disintegration, on Bolsonaro, Brazil, and the global far right • Shawn Gude, author of American Socialist, on the life and legacy of Eugene V. Debs

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Excerpts from three interviews on AI broadcast over the last year:

• Hagen Blix on how AI captures the alienation and anxieties of life under capitalism

• Emile Torres on how the AI ghouls want us extinct

• Jodi Dean on what AI is doing to us and why it must be stopped

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Owen Zidar, co-author of The Everywhere Millionaire, on the hidden rich • Jake Werner on US–China relations

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Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Live Laugh Love, on the world of right-wing evangelical Christian women

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Jennifer Berkshire talks about the anti-school voucher backlash (articles here and here) • Heather Berg, author of Notes from the Sex Worker Left, on what that formation brings to politics

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Garrison Lovely, author of Obsolete, on the terrors and possible promise of AI • Dave Zirin on Howard Zinn, the subject of his new biography

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Alejandro Velasco on Trump’s oil grab in Venezuela • Alex Vitale on a post-carceral future

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David McNally, author of Slavery and Capitalism, on the political economy of the institution • Billy Fleming, author of Building Postcarbon Futures, on how to get from here to there

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Aurélie Daher on the destruction Israel is visiting upon southern Lebanon • Annie McClanahan, author of Beneath the Wage, on nonstandard forms of work and compensation

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