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American Democracy is an Easy Target

January 17, 2018
Keywords: Foreign Policy (online)

Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.

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August 31, 2022 Foreign Affairs with Abraham Newman and Jeremy Wallace

In policy circles, discussions about artificial intelligence invariably pit China against the United States in a race for technological supremacy. If the key resource is data, then China, with its billion-plus citizens and lax protections against state surveillance, seems destined to win. Kai-Fu Lee, a famous computer scientist, has claimed that data is the new ...

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Revolutionary Possibility (on China Mieville’s October)

September 25, 2017 Jacobin online

October, China Miéville’s new book, describes the October Revolution as a moment of possibility. In its closing pages, Miéville explains why he wrote the book, despite the revolution’s aftermath: Those who count themselves on the side of the revolution must engage with these failures and crimes. To do otherwise is to fall into apologia, special ...

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