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Alfredo Saad-Filho on Lula’s victory and the challenges facing him in his fourth term • Raj Patel on the malign influence of foundations on the food supply The post Lula’s prospects in Brazil, foundations and food appeared first on KPFA.

Mike Beggs, co-author of The Blueprint, on what a socialist economy might look like The post What a socialist economy might look like appeared first on KPFA.

Rodrigo Nunes, author of Anatomy of Disintegration, on Bolsonaro, Brazil, and the global far right • Shawn Gude, author of American Socialist, on the life and legacy of Eugene V. Debs The post Brazil and the global right • the life of Eugene V. Debs appeared first on KPFA.

Excerpts from three interviews on AI broadcast over the last year: • Hagen Blix on how AI captures the alienation and anxieties of life under capitalism • Emile Torres on how the AI ghouls want us extinct • Jodi Dean on what AI is doing to us and why it must be stopped The post Fundraising Special: Three Views of AI appeared first on KPFA.

Owen Zidar, co-author of The Everywhere Millionaire, on the hidden rich • Jake Werner on US–China relations The post fundraising special: the hidden rich, China–US relations appeared first on KPFA.

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Live Laugh Love, on the world of right-wing evangelical Christian women The post fundraising special: Kristin Du Mez on the world of right-wing evangelical women appeared first on KPFA.

Jennifer Berkshire talks about the anti-school voucher backlash (articles here and here) • Heather Berg, author of Notes from the Sex Worker Left, on what that formation brings to politics The post School politics, sex worker politics appeared first on KPFA.

Garrison Lovely, author of Obsolete, on the terrors and possible promise of AI • Dave Zirin on Howard Zinn, the subject of his new biography The post AI may kill us all, so it must be stopped • the life of historian Howard Zinn appeared first on KPFA.

Alejandro Velasco on Trump’s oil grab in Venezuela • Alex Vitale on a post-carceral future The post Grabbing Venezuela’s oil • a future without cops and jails appeared first on KPFA.

David McNally, author of Slavery and Capitalism, on the political economy of the institution • Billy Fleming, author of Building Postcarbon Futures, on how to get from here to there The post The political economy of slavery • building postcarbon futures appeared first on KPFA.

Aurélie Daher on the destruction Israel is visiting upon southern Lebanon • Annie McClanahan, author of Beneath the Wage, on nonstandard forms of work and compensation The post How and why is Israel pummeling Lebanon? • nonstandard forms of work appeared first on KPFA.

Jodi Dean, who has a new Substack on the issue, on why AI is so terrible • Anatol Lieven on the bloody stalemate that is the Russia–Ukraine war (Sidecar piece here) The post The perils of AI, the horrors of the Russia–Ukraine war appeared first on KPFA.

Aditiya Nigam on the Cockroach movement in India • Gerald Epstein and Juliet Schor on a detailed set of proposals to transform the US economy (papers here) The post The Cockroach movement in India • transforming the US economy: a suite of proposals appeared first on KPFA.

Michaela Brangan, co-chair of the group that wrote DSA’s new platform, on that document • Hagen Blix, co-author of Why We Fear AI, on exactly that The post DSA’s platform • why we fear AI appeared first on KPFA.

Laura Field, author of Furious Minds, on the highbrow side of Trumpism—with a brief comment from David Austin Walsh on how similar the highbrows are to the deplorables The post Fundraising special: a look at the right, intellectual side mostly but not all appeared first on KPFA.