The Nation

Our May issue is here! This one features an AI package as well as Spring Books. We have Jacob Silverman on the death of an AI whistleblower, @ElieNYC on the future of AI judges, @BenTarnoff in @BooksandtheArts on "The AI Paradox," and more.

If there were ever going to be a time that I’d test positive for tuberculosis, I assumed it would be that first test I took in July 2020. I’d spent time abroad in rural Morocco, Nicaragua, and China while an undergraduate student. bit.ly/4u8etvl

We need to tear down the modern adoption industry, writes @mcenizas_. bit.ly/48JGTDw

With populism faltering, the question remains whether a credible left alternative can emerge. bit.ly/4cFrZzy

Establishment Democrats are so wedded to the logics of the criminal punishment system that they distort popular calls for common sense, evidence-backed public safety policies as a minority demand from the radical left. This costs them elections, and it costs millions their safety and liberty. bit.ly/4tpRRX8

Most Americans don’t know that tuberculosis still sickens and kills millions of people. When I told friends about my treatment, a number of them didn’t even know TB still existed. bit.ly/4u8etvl

A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. bit.ly/3OHCeLE

Orbán’s defeat reflects deeper economic and political contradictions within nationalist movements. bit.ly/4cFrZzy

The fantasy of regime change has so powerfully saturated the Iranian diaspora that many now openly cheer the bombing of their homeland, writes @never_oppressed. bit.ly/4tSZkxK

Trump and Hegseth are winning the war—against their own military. bit.ly/41PdvYO

Mamdani is framing his still-fresh tenure not only as a measure of his ability to govern but as a sign that the ideology of democratic socialism can work in practice, not just in theory. bit.ly/4vAJyJx

If there were ever going to be a time that I’d test positive for tuberculosis, I assumed it would be that first test I took in July 2020. I’d spent time abroad in rural Morocco, Nicaragua, and China while an undergraduate student. bit.ly/4u8etvl

What will it mean for AI to infiltrate our justice system? AI boosters argue it will bring fairness & efficiency. @ElieNYC begs to differ. He argues AI cannot be programmed to be fair or just, because we can’t even agree on what “fair” and “just” are. bit.ly/4mNI3Uq

Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s bellicosity exceeds that of even the most extreme national security hawks. He explicitly disdains the idea of debating the value of technologies like the targeting-and-surveillance complexes marketed by Palantir. bit.ly/4t9cTZn

In total, it took three blood tests to confirm that I did have tuberculosis. Three separate needles puncturing three different veins, vacuuming a swirl of blood into three glass vials. bit.ly/4u8etvl

Democrats need to make it a top priority to investigate and challenge Hegseth’s ideological war. In that battle, all weapons should be used, including impeachment. bit.ly/41PdvYO

What happens when AI inevitably takes over big chunks of our legal system? Will it bring fairness and efficiency, as the AI boosters claim? Or, as @ElieNYC writes, will it just replace Justice Samuel Alito with Justice MechaHitler? Read his argument here. bit.ly/4mNI3Uq

Most Americans don’t know that tuberculosis still sickens and kills millions of people. When I told friends about my treatment, a number of them didn’t even know TB still existed. bit.ly/4u8etvl

Even as religious controversies swirl around him, Donald Trump is the political heir to America’s revivalist preaching style. He is the ultimate American televangelist. bit.ly/4vC2o3b

What will outlive ICE, regardless of what happens next, is a governing instinct that has become second nature to Democrats. bit.ly/4tpRRX8

Trump and Hegseth are winning the war—against their own military. bit.ly/41PdvYO