Apple’s big day for AI

June 10, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back! Despite last summer’s OceanGate tragedy, someone else wants to take a submersible to the Titanic. Meet billionaire thrill-seeker Larry Connor. In today’s big story, we’re giving a preview of what to expect at Apple’s annual event. […]

The Destruction of Julian Assange

MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2024 In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before in our history, in which we must choose the values by which we will live our life (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for […]

The Conviction Effect

Plus: Deloitte pride float, cutting off aid to Israel, the hostage rescue mission, and more… LIZ WOLFE National polls show slight shift toward Joe Biden: In the roughly week and a half since former president (and presumptive Republican presidential nominee) Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies related to […]

The Myths of Anne Carson

WEB VERSION June 10, 2024 The Myths of Anne Carson Over the last three decades, Anne Carson has forged a unique path in North American arts and letters. An often reserved and opaque writer, sometimes it is hard to tell whether something she has written is supposed to […]

Another step towards the abyss

By Daniel Lazare, Weekly Worker Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, but still looks set to win in November. Daniel Lazare warns that some kind of civil war beckons America’s long-running constitutional crisis rose another notch last week, when a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of […]

Outstanding Personalities

In our May 9 issue, Darryl Pinckney reviews an extensive survey of “the Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “If anything,” he writes, “the exhibition liberates the individual African American artist. It says how eclectic the past is in its artistic practices and styles.” Pinckney’s […]

The Rainbow Nation Fades Out, Ibram X. Kendi Becoming a Liability, A US Cyber Force? Myanmar As Potential Front in New Cold War, Inventions Unknown to the Ancients

Niccolo Soldo Jun 08, 2024 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Share Being a teen, the issue of South African Apartheid didn’t […]

Out of the Habit

Meghan O’Gieblyn Leaving the Fold The memoir of a former nun who left her convent after twelve years reveals the contradictions of the monastic life as well as the limits of memoir. Adom Getachew Black Atlantics The scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African […]

The 2024 Fortune 500

Alyson Shontell Editor-in-Chief Seventy years ago, we published the first-ever Fortune 500, our authoritative ranking of America’s largest corporations by revenue. The business world looked a lot different then. America was in the middle of a manufacturing boom, so Fortune’s editors focused the inaugural list on “industrials”—like oil […]

Why we don’t exercise

June 8, 2024 • 3 min read with Joi-Marie McKenzie Happy Saturday! Sleep is the newest ultimate luxury item. Here’s one millionaire’s five-step guide to sleeping like a baby. On the agenda: The hidden costs and dangers of traveling as a gay couple. We know exercise is good […]

Communism is coming back? No way.

by Petr Hampl Arktos Journal Jun 08, 2024 Petr Hampl exposes the irony of anti-capitalist movements being funded by powerful global capitalists rather than socialist regimes. When we see an invitation to a radical political event demanding the abolition of capitalism and private property, it is not hard […]

Huge pro-Palestine protest surrounds White House, smoke bombs set off, progressives demand ‘butcher’ Biden be arrested for war crimes

Trending story June 08, 2024 Huge pro-Palestine protest surrounds White House, smoke bombs set off, progressives demand ‘butcher’ Biden be arrested for war crimes Pro-Palestinian activists demanding an end to the war in Gaza staged a massive protest that surrounded the White House, and there … Read more […]

Everything About Israel Is Fake

Caitlin Johnstone Jun 08, 2024 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Everything about Israel is fake. It’s a completely synthetic nation created without any regard for the organic sociopolitical movements of the land and its people, slapped rootless atop an ancient pre-existing civilization […]

CNN’s legal expert offers bold prediction about Georgia election interference case — and Democrats won’t like it

Trending story June 07, 2024 CNN’s legal expert offers bold prediction about Georgia election interference case — and Democrats won’t like it CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig believes the Georgia election interference case may be … Read more MORE STORIES FOR YOU Immigration traditionally ‘a weapon’ used […]