Meanwhile, we have our eyes fully trained on the November elections. As Jared Abbott and Frederick DeVeaux write, there are more than a few working-class populist candidates, from Nebraska to Wisconsin, who show real promise. “The four candidates we’re tracking are running competitive races in Republican-leaning seats, and three of them are leading among likely voters,” Abbott and DeVeaux write.

There are obviously a lot of issues on everyone’s mind this season, but perhaps none is more significant right now than AI, as Chris Lehmann observes. After a whistleblower said the technology could kill us all by the end of the decade—and Trump retorted that all we really need to manage it is a “a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT”—AI, Lehmann argues, is “the mother of all kitchen-table issues.” Will we regulate this technology? Or will we vote for the candidates who leave us to the robots?

-Alana Pockros

Associate Editor, The Nation