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Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Unions step in and mobilise Democratic vote for victory
With the Democratic Party and AFL-CIO organisations on the ground totally out of touch, the United Steelworkers union stepped in and successfully organised a Democratic win in Alabama’s senate election. MARK GRUENBERG reports
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
KEITH FLETT highlights the inimical role of the strategist who helped shape Tony Blair’s ascent and whose political blueprint continues to echo in the era of Keir Starmer
70 years on from Khruschev’s closed-door address to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s 20th Congress, Kenny Coyle talks to academic and writer RICHARD SAKWA about the significance of this political bombshell, in which Stalin’s ‘cult of personality,’ abuse of power and mass repressions were denounced
Small Prophets finds Mackenzie Crook conjuring tiny prophetic beings from working-class malaise, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
DAN FLIPPO, the Birmingham-based United Steelworkers (USW) union district director for the Deep South, noticed something interesting when he looked at Republican US Senate nominee Roy Moore’s last run for statewide office, several years ago.
Moore barely won his state supreme court seat statewide. He also won Mobile, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won Mobile by 14 percentage points in 2016.
If we can reverse that result in Mobile, Flippo thought, we can beat Moore.
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