Politics Weekly America

Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’

Freitag, 21. August 2026 · 28 min

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With less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war – and datacentres. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the historian Jill Lepore about how this latest AI backlash could influence those all-important elections in November. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the ‘artificial state’?

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