Google made an announcement last month that could turn the journalism world upside down, accelerating the internet’s shift toward an overwhelmingly AI-driven landscape and serving the Trump agenda of media suppression. At its developer conference in May, the company announced the most disruptive changes to Google Search in over 25 years. Google Search will further demote its index of the web…
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Speaking at a press conference one day after the shootings by two teenagers who killed three Muslim men at the Islamic Center of San Diego, Hawaa Abdullah, the daughter of slain victim Amin Abdullah, passionately conveyed how seriously her father took his job of protecting the community. With her voice trembling, Hawaa’s grief was palpable, especially as she recalled her father’s deep sense of…
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What happens to higher education when institutions dedicated to critical thought increasingly align themselves with the logics of war, surveillance, and national security? Unless we mount an organized resistance, we may viscerally experience the answer to this question all too soon. We are already watching this transformation play out in both the U.S. and Canada as universities face growing…
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Okay, here’s what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later. I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 innocent people. Until that moment, of course, such a thing would have been beyond inconceivable, no less watchable on TV…
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Beginning June 7, the AFL-CIO quadrennial convention gathers in Minneapolis with the stated aim of organizing “in unity and clarity of purpose to empower working people.” That clarity of purpose ought to include a real commitment to take on the biggest and most important organizing challenge that unions face in this era — Amazon. Thus far, notwithstanding some inspiring individual sites…
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The Trump administration’s appetite for cruelty and its wanton disregard for wasting taxpayer funds has shown itself again — this time in its proposed regulations for implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s (OBBBA) Medicaid eligibility requirements. But as new details emerge, there are some possible ways that states could protect eligible populations from losing health care.
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