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  • Will AI Change Teaching Jobs in the Future?

    AI and education: The kids are in danger

    Originally published: Reports for the Economic Front on October 2, 2025 (more by Reports for the Economic Front)

    Big tech, ever on the hunt for new markets for their generative AI systems, are pushing hard to get them into U.S. public schools as well as colleges and universities. Their interest goes beyond short term profits—it is also about “grooming” a new generation to accept, if not embrace, the world big tech seeks to […]

  • Image generated by DALL-E 2. (Photo: 80000hours.org)

    AI chatbots: Hype meets reality

    Originally published: Reports for the Economic Front on April 15, 2024 (more by Reports for the Economic Front)

    The chatbot revolution began in 2022 with OpenAI’s introduction of ChatGPT.

  • The following infographic includes the actual number of lives that could have been saved.

    The U.S. experience: racism and COVID-19 mortality

    Originally published: Reports for the Economic Front on December 15, 2021 (more by Reports for the Economic Front)

    Not only did all the racial and ethnic populations, with the exception of Asians, experience far higher COVID-19 mortality rates than did whites, their respective rates were at least twice that of whites.

  • Retire

    Growing old in America: Baby Boomer nightmare

    Originally published: Reports for the Economic Front on July 5, 2019 (more by Reports for the Economic Front)

    Despite its reputation as the wealthiest generation, baby boomers (generally considered to be those born between 1946 and 1964) are facing a retirement nightmare.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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