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We’ve certainly been talking a lot about the “AI Doomers” who insist that AI is all too likely to destroy humanity. However, even people who aren’t fully on board with the existential threat of AI …

How do current federal individual income tax rates and brackets compare historically?

U.S.-China rivalry has led to the rerouting of crucial subsea internet cables, which could have major geopolitical consequences.

Today on TAP: To be introduced later today, this House bill would stop the massive diversion of corporate revenues into CEOs’ pockets.

The goals of domestic supply chains, good jobs, carbon reduction, and public input are inseparable.

We’ve written about the importance of making and maintaining friendships in adulthood and the benefits of face-to-face interaction. After reading one of these articles, maybe you tried to get your friends together to do something. Perhaps you threw out a text to them, and the resulting conversation went something like this: You: Hey, that new […]

Thoughts on dressing up in a world where members of Congress are trying to get away with wearing sneakers inside the Oval Office. Hoodies in the Senate? Sure!

Shall we put this one in the “I told you so category?” If you have been reading my blog and my twice-a-month newsletter, you know this was coming. For the past year, I have argued that …

The modern ghost town of Eagle Mountain, California, is a destination for lookie-loos....

The map of anti-trans risk has polarized into two Americas - one where trans people have full legal protections, and one where they are persecuted by the state.

'Shark Tank' investor Kevin O'Leary details why Elon Musk is wrong about working from home--and it teaches a great lesson in balancing emotional and rational thought.

Minnesota just banned captive audience meetings, presumably understanding that it is unreasonable to force working people to attend mandatory meetings at which their boss delivers to them the equivalent of an Ayn Rand book reading.

What people are now calling “quiet quitting” was, in previous decades, simply known as “having a job.”

The case stems back to Edward Snowden’s revelations about US mass surveillance

I love science-fiction series like “The Man in the High Castle” because they force us to question our ingrained assumption that history was…

The crisis exposed Big VC’s flaws. It’s time to rethink venture capital’s power—and reimagine investment in innovation.

The limit Congress imposes is dumb, but Biden can’t just wave it away.

Impacts of YouTube on loneliness and mental health Frequent users of YouTube have higher levels of loneliness, anxiety, and depression according to researchers from the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP). Frequent users of YouTube have higher levels

Three researchers have found that AI, far from eliminating jobs, can instead increase worker productivity, improve customer sentiment, and even reduce employee turnover.

For the NY Times, Jamelle Bouie takes a look at the legislation that Republicans around the country are pushing and, in the style

This is not what Franklin Roosevelt had in mind.

What jobs do 15-year-olds expect to do at 30?

OR, the toilet spoke and I understood the truth

What is a jackalope, and what’s its origin story? You might be surprised to learn this cryptid helped us solve a form of cancer.

Twitter trolls don't think much of my chart relating income inequality to murder rates. Here's a detailed response.

From USB worms to satellite-based hacking, Russia’s FSB hackers, known as Turla, have spent 25 years distinguishing themselves as “adversary number one.”

The counterintuitive, inadvisable, and absolutely inevitable collision between rain and desert. Once it was announced that Seattle would be awarded the NHL’s 32nd hockey team, the comparisons began…