An independent newsletter combining labor reporting and a biweekly news digest with personal essays, memoir, visual essays, video reports and travel dispatches. Readers get firsthand worker interviews on strikes and union campaigns alongside reflective writing on the writer's creative process.
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Weekly English translations of Chinese-language articles on China's AI ecosystem, each with context and key passages from the translator. Regular roundup issues preview ten recent Chinese articles and let readers vote on the next feature translation.
Brian Merchant's newsletter reports on and critiques the AI industry, big tech, labor and concentrated power, mixing interviews, podcast episodes and essays. Recent issues cover California's billionaire wealth tax and worker-protection laws, the 'stochastic parrots' debate with Emily Bender, and Luddite culture.
Commonplace is a magazine of essays, podcasts and commentary on American politics, economics and society, with a centre-right, communitarian lean. Recent issues argue about manufacturing jobs and reindustrialization, workforce policy, and the limits of slippery-slope arguments in political debate.
A personal newsletter mixing memoir, essays on culture and ideas, and accessible excerpts from the author's PhD research on women garment workers and migration in Bangladesh. Readers get reflective writing alongside gender and labour research findings.
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