In the U.S.

Comment from William Bowles: On your article: “AI researcher warns machines could take power. The Pentagon already uses AI to choose targets” Yeah but it’s people, corporations and their servants, not the machines that kill. […]

On Sept. 9, 1971, approximately 1,500 prisoners from across the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York seized control of Cell Block D and its yard, after submitting a 27-point manifesto to the prison administration […]

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on Sept. 8, 2026, and quit the artificial intelligence industry with a warning that drew more than 100 million views on X. The people building AI, he wrote, earnestly believe […]

The richest 1% own nearly a third of the country’s wealth. Between early 2025 and early 2026, their wealth grew by more than the bottom half of the country owns altogether. Corporate profits hit a […]

Donald Trump is remaking the U.S. military command. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotions of seven U.S. Army officers selected for major general. Two are Black. Two are women. The New York […]

In the mid-1960s, Harvard researchers experimented with wearable radio tracking devices for people caught in the criminal “justice” system. These were very early prototypes of what would become the ankle monitor. In the early 1970s, […]

Jazz musician Cassandra Wilson died at her home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sept. 1. She was 70. She was born in Jackson on Dec. 4, 1955, 10 weeks after an all-white jury 115 miles north […]