With Big Tech Talking Government Backing, Has OpenAI Become “Too Big to Fail”?
Leaders at the AI company are scrambling to pacify concerns that the bubble around their company could soon burst.
Tunisia: Rampant violations against refugees and migrants expose EU’s complicity risk
The Tunisian authorities have over the past three years increasingly dismantled protections for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, particularly Black people, with a dangerous shift towards racist policing and widespread human rights violations that endanger their lives, safety and dignity, Amnesty International said today.
[EVENT | November 13] A Conversation With Heidi Reichinnek
An event with the German Left Party’s parliamentary co-leader.
Can the world prevent a genocide in Sudan?
After rebel fighters captured a major city in Darfur last week, alarming reports emerged of massacres and sexual violence targeting the region’s Black population.
Geopolitics, backsliding and progress: here’s what to expect at this year’s COP30 global climate talks
As climate change worsens, some states are backsliding on climate action. Next week, negotiators will gather in Brazil to try to restore flagging energy.
Conditions of War, Fairytale About Love, fixDisputedCities, Total Metrics, Factory of the Map, MinimumWage MayBeDenied
This audio documents a multimedia intervention by the artist collective eeefff that explores how war, ecological collapse, and colonial infrastructures infiltrate daily life through invisibilized systems.
Sudan: Civilians must be protected amid escalating RSF attacks in Kordofan region
Civilians in Sudan’s Kordofan region must be protected amid reports of escalating Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks in the area, Amnesty International said today. The RSF have seized the town of Bara in North Kordofan in recent days and stepped-up attacks around the nearby city of El Obeid.
The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study
A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.
France: Dysfunctional and discriminatory residence permit system violates racialized migrant workers’ rights
New research from Amnesty International exposes how France’s residence permit system for migrant workers is trapping racialized people in administrative limbo and leaving them vulnerable to labour exploitation, homelessness and poverty.
Conditions of War, Fairytale About Love, fixDisputedCities, Total Metrics, Factory of the Map, MinimumWage MayBeDenied
This video by the artist collective eeefff explores how war, ecological collapse, and colonial infrastructures infiltrate daily life through invisibilized systems. Cyberwarfare, digital mapping, algorithmic assistants, and coded instructions quietly reshape reality, embedding militarization into homes, bodies, and imaginations.
Mamdani Ignited NYC’s Political Imagination. Grassroots Work Can Make It Real.
Free child care and buses will take collective action to achieve -- and a grassroots movement is gaining momentum.
A Republic, If We Can Afford It
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1777) | Johann Martin Will, copy after Charles Nicholas Cochin / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Read More
Shakespeare Among the French Romantics
Performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Thtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, directed by Wendy Toye (1964) | Roger Pic /. Read More
Countering Right-Wing Violence Against LGBTQ* and Disabled Persons
LGBTQ* people and people with various disabilities face similar political struggles for respect, visibility, and representation. They are also subjected to, or threatened by, extreme right-wing violence, which has increased in recent years.
As SNAP Crisis Continues, Trump Whines About Americans’ “Affordability” Concerns
Trump denied that voters’ concerns about the economy played a role in the GOP’s losses in this week’s elections.
What Makes Cities Go BANANA?
The Holland Tunnel under construction (1923) | New York Public Library Digital Collections The nearly hundred-year-old Holland Tunnel, the first mechanically. Read More
The Family in Crisis: Between Right-Wing Mobilization and Left-Wing Criticism
There is a family crisis. However, this crisis was not triggered by the ‘erosion of traditional identities’ or by the fight for equal rights for LGBTQIA+ people and migrants. Rather, it stems from a larger systemic crisis in which the family, as the central institution of a privatized system of social reproduction, has failed.
SCOTUS Is Behaving Like “Arm of the MAGA Trump Presidency,” Says Legal Expert
Lisa Graves discusses the case before the court on tariffs, as well as voting rights and John Roberts’s legacy.
Europe: Existing barriers to abortion access compounded by alarming attempts to roll back reproductive rights
European governments must act to ensure equal and universal access to abortion care in the face of ongoing restrictions and intensifying efforts to further limit access to abortion across the region, said Amnesty International in a report published today.