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Reading and writing have lost their primacy in our post-literate society, and yet PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) tests reading skills for a world in which those skills are no longer valued. Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock

Why banning AI in the classroom will not be enough to remedy poor reading skills in a post‑literary society

Understanding the technological shift from a literary to a post-literary society is crucial for rethinking AI’s place in learning environments.
Supporters on primary election night in New York, June 23, 2026, cheer winning candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Democrat and member of the Democratic Socialists of America running for the House. Seth Wenig/AP Photo

From the Freedom Caucus to the democratic socialists, small groups inside parties can wreak havoc with leaders’ agenda in Congress

What role might DSA-affiliated candidates play if they win election to Congress in the midterms and the Democrats gain a majority in the House of Representatives?
People attend a Tax The Rich rally hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America in the Bronx, N.Y., on March 29, 2026. Jason Alpert-Wisnia/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images

Democratic socialists aren’t the only young, progressive Democrats dividing the party

How will Democrats in Congress deal with the DSA-affiliated candidates likely to join their ranks in the new year? There are lessons from the tea party’s challenge to traditional GOP values.
Ranked choice voting makes use of more information from the voters than plurality voting. stefanamer/Getty Images

Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner‑take‑all system used to elect nearly every US politician

Ranked choice voting largely avoids the pitfalls of plurality voting, giving voters the power to express their true candidate preferences rather than being strategic.
Zohran Mamdani, recently elected mayor of New York City, talks in the Oval Office of the White House, next to United States President Donald Trump, after a Nov. 21, 2025 meeting. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beyond Zohran Mamdani: Social media amplifies the politics of feelings

Representation matters, but Zohran Mamdani’s story is about what’s possible when people organize across differences for a common cause.
In writing he did before his most famous novels, Orwell focused primarily on other themes including work, poverty, anti-imperialism and democratic socialism. zoom-zoom, iStock/Getty Images Plus

Orwell’s opposition to totalitarianism was rooted in his support for freeing workers from poverty and exploitation

George Orwell, the author of two classic anti-totalitarian, pro-freedom novels from the 1940s, was a democratic socialist who opposed authoritarian leaders of the left and the right.

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