I think there's scope to swap-in these topics in most degrees, with a net usefulness advantage.

OTOH, I fully agree with you on labor unions - noting that support for labor unions is much enhanced when you have learned about labor economics and history. It's not either/or but mutually reinforcing.

Almost no STEM graduate of my acquaintance was taught basic concepts of labor supply and demand, empirical organizational dynamics, or recent economic history, making them enormously vulnerable in their professional lives. This is disciplinary arrogance but it serves external interests as well. 2/2

[1] Yes, some AI scientific projects have done great: the ones that gave domain experts resources and tools. Not the ones that went "silly scientists, just throw 'data' and GPUs at the problem and wait." Which kind do you think they have in mind? 2/2

... the lack of political pushback comes as much from lack of information as from agreement. 3/3

... aware of what CBP/ICE do, why, and to whom; Argentina is a country with a much _different_ version of racism.

Local coverage of US politics is quite bad, so, while this does represent I think a definitely more explicitly "pro-Western" (and homophobic, misogynist, etc) administration... 2/