Julián Posada’s upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence, is based on extensive fieldwork among data workers in Venezuela. During the heig...

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

Leaders are weighing a settlement over reverse discrimination claims amid criticism from students, faculty and alumni.

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Come fall, first-year students at U. of C. Law School will be prohibited from using electronic devices like laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom.

Steven Thrasher, the former Northwestern University professor whose employment was terminated in 2025 after his involvement in a 2024 pro-Palestine

Mr. Khalil will now have to convince a judge that the defendants coordinated to take action against him and other pro-Palestinian activists.

Three years after the Supreme Court ruled against the use of race in such decisions, institution-level changes are starting to emerge.

The opposition to a potential deal with the government reveals a strategy that Yale groups have spent a year honing.

As Trump went after higher education, Yale built a case for its conservative credentials. The Justice Department came knocking anyway.

Amid all the talk of “electability,” a Midwestern state's radical history points to what's possible.

Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we speak with the acclaimed scholar Robin D. G. Kelley, who examines how Black radicals have interpreted ...

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

In a major blow to the Democratic establishment, three progressives backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won primary races in New York City. Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander beat incumb...

A wave of progressive candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won big in New York last night. DSA members Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila C...

This article is an extended consideration of the cardboard box, elaborating upon various experiments of inhabiting the endless enfoldments of empire and its tetrising structures of violence across the...

Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions

This article analyzes the software container as a device central to the rise of cloud capitalism. Firms like Google pioneered software containers internally as infrastructure for their own producti...

What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest jazz saxophonists of all time, has died aged 95. His death was announced on his website on Monday, “with deep sorrow and profound love”. His publicist Terri Hinte also confirmed the news. Continue reading...

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A conversation on AI, rationality, and violence.

Featuring Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, Tennessee US House candidate Justin Pearson, New York US House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, Oregon state Senate candidate Tammy Carpent...

Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...

Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond.

The United States and Israel claim their latest attack was a form of preventive self-defense, widely understood as illegal in international law as it neither meets the threshold of the Charter definit...

Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran Read the first two parts of this symposium here

The United States and Israel claim their latest attack was a form of preventive self-defense, widely understood as illegal in international law as it neither meets the threshold of the Charter definit...

The ongoing uprising is rooted in the political economy of structural adjustment, which forms the unstable medium through which revolt becomes contagious.

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Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran Read the first part of this symposium here

On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime...

Courage sticks in a way that enjoyment envies.

Thinking from within the ruins

The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

Vicente Rafael in 2016 being interviewed by a student. Photo: University of Washington Vicente L. Rafael (February 16, 1956 – February 21, 2026) was a pioneering historian of the Philippines whose …