Silicon Valley Doesn’t Know What Makes a Good City Silicon Valley Doesn’t Know What Makes a Good City
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us: Joanne McNeil unpacks Big Tech’s driverless transport fantasy.
Oct 23, 2025 / Podcast / Paris Marx
Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed
From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.
Oct 23, 2025 / Y.L. Al-Sheikh
Independent Media in Cambodia Is Collapsing. Washington Made It Worse. Independent Media in Cambodia Is Collapsing. Washington Made It Worse.
The Thai-Cambodian border conflict is just one of the many stories going underreported in the country as Trump’s funding cuts leave citizens and journalists scrambling.
Oct 23, 2025 / StudentNation / Rani Chor
A Downbeat Take on the Heist Movie A Downbeat Take on the Heist Movie
Kelly Reichardt’s latest, a sly 1970s drama involving a museum theft, probes the broken politics of the decade.
Oct 23, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi
“A House of Dynamite” “A House of Dynamite”
Confronting the new nuclear era.
Oct 22, 2025 / Michael T. Klare
Will the AI Boom Lead to Water and Electricity Shortages? Will the AI Boom Lead to Water and Electricity Shortages?
It’s a steep price to pay so that Mark Zuckerberg can sell AI-enabled spy glasses.
Oct 22, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rebecca Solnit on No Kings—Plus, Reforming the LAPD After Rodney King Rebecca Solnit on No Kings—Plus, Reforming the LAPD After Rodney King
On this episode of Start Making Sense, the author of Hope in the Dark looks ahead, and Danny Goldberg explains how the Rodney King riots led to greater control of the LAPD.
Oct 22, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
What T.J. Clark Sees What T.J. Clark Sees
His art criticism reaches rarified heights—combining style, rigor, and politics like almost no one else.
Oct 22, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man
Incarcerated for 44 years, the political prisoner remains unbowed in the face of medical neglect.
Oct 22, 2025 / Dave Zirin