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Jodi Dean discusses the negative impacts of AI while Anatol Lieven analyzes the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Jodi Dean, who has a new Substack on the issue, surveys how AI has been terrible. Anatol Lieven, author of a new article for New Left Review ’s Sidecar blog, looks at the bloody stalemate that is the Russia–Ukraine war. Behind the News , hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

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