The digital campaign behind Lula’s victory demonstrated the possibilities of popular mobilization — and the dangers of fighting the far right on its own terms.
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Who gets to dream the future?
Against the authoritarian futures envisioned by Silicon Valley’s elites, we must expand the scope of our collective imagination and reclaim the power to imagine otherwise.
Artificial Intelligence
Who gets to dream the future?
Against the authoritarian futures envisioned by Silicon Valley’s elites, we must expand the scope of our collective imagination and reclaim the power to imagine otherwise.
The extinction pitch
Warnings from researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI that their own products could end humanity distract from the real damage AI is already doing.
The grid inside the grid
Africa’s new AI factories promise digital sovereignty. Their electricity deals may instead create private power islands inside public systems.
The stories shaping Africa’s AI future
From leapfrogging optimism to warnings of a new extraction economy, the frameworks now defining Africa’s AI moment will decide who gets to shape the future and who is shaped by it
Culture
How a child inherits care
Across generations of displacement, struggle, and war in Sudan, ordinary acts of care become a form of inheritance that no violence can erase.
TV
From IMF history to astrophysics, Nairobi’s Drunken Lectures turn casual drinkers into an engaged public.
Politics
Deported to Liberia, again
Two centuries after the American Colonization Society shipped free black Americans to Liberia, Washington is sending its unwanted there once more.
The World Cup
Our coverage of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup in North America.
