For anyone following the fight over public education in Arizona, this has been a consequential year. The Protect Education coalition mounted a valiant effort to get Prop 212 on the ballot. But the initiative ultimately failed to qualify after a well-funded pro-privatizers managed to challenge enough petition signatures to defeat the will of over 420K … Read more
Is there an existential danger from AI? Yes. But it’s not from a real-world Skynet. Most of all, that danger comes from powerful oligarchs using AI for selfish purposes, and especially the tech bro billionaires. 10% chance of extinction? Recent reports, from AI companies and others, have described this danger in apocalyptic terms. In one, a … Read more
Donald Trump’s Golden Age for America is nothing more than a self-serving golden nest egg for him, his family, and political allies who are trampling over ethical norms that all other Presidents in history have observed. The revelation that the current White House occupant’s shameless manipulation of over 25,000 stock trades, including for companies that … Read more
Republicans have a well-honed ability to take a phrase that means something important to Americans and suck the life out of it. Congressman Juan Ciscomani carried out one of these delicate procedures last Thursday in the Sixth Congressional District debate when he drained meaning from the well-known words “social safety net.” The country has had … Read more
Democrat Teresa “Terry” Leyba Ruiz used Tuesday’s Arizona Superintendent debate to draw a stark contrast with Republican Kimberly Yee: Ruiz, a former Glendale Community College president with 35 years in education and 25 years in the classroom, repeatedly argued that Arizona’s next Superintendent must understand the real conditions students and teachers confront every day. “Teachers … Read more