Society

We live in the Anthropocene, a geological epoch defined by the influence of one species over everything else, including the planet itself. That species is ours, and we are a pestilential one, alter…

Some businesses like railroads, airlines, and retail stores are running so lean that an employee sick day can throw the whole system into chaos.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, his on-and-off girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, and others involved in the company were reportedly in a polycule together.

The practice ultimately results in higher prices for customers and lower wages for workers

Simple symbols convey complex ideas. For example, two intersecting lines symbolize a religion held by 2.2 billion people and a religious text of 783,000

These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern prevails in other languages too, researchers say.

Back in 2021, Apple announced a number of new child safety features, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) detection for iCloud Photos. However, the move was widely criticized due to privacy concerns. After putting it on hold indefinitely, Apple has now confirmed that it has stopped its plans to roll out the CSAM detection system. […]

Take a look at our annual list of the country’s top Black artists, influencers, and change-makers.

“I’m not at all sure NASA has thought this through”

In order to equip our clients with best practices and recommendations, we spent some time digging into what an ESG strategy would entail for a start-up, why it could be an impactful differentiator to consider, and lastly how to get started thinking through your own ESG strategy.

If you’ve ever flipped through the radio dial — not satellite, not podcasts, but good old-fashioned AM and FM radio — you may have noticed something. First of all, “Don’t Stop Believing” still gets a shocking amount of air time. Great song but maybe culture should evolve. But also, when it comes to talk radio,

My job is to read the market for companies in financial distress. Here's how I'll know if Elon Musk's empire is headed for disaster.

The list of dilemmas at Twitter continues to grow in surprising and unexpected ways, as janitors who were contracted to clean the company’s headquarters picketed Monday.

Director Audrey Mascina looks at sex and intimacy as a means of empowerment outside of societal limitations

Glory M. Liu’s new book argues Adam Smith may not be the genius economist he’s often remembered as.

A conversation about the “mediocre monopolists” of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the real lessons of science fiction.

Red states refuse to play by the same rules as blue states.

There are fewer films now that allow an actor to grow a persona and a Tom Cruise level of stardom. It’s a crisis, and the movies know it.

You can make a thing so perfect that it’s ruined.

What America and the world can learn from the Faroe Islands.

Why are so few women in management positions? The popular explanations range from women just aren’t capable of being leaders to women just don’t want to be leaders. According to the author, however, the absence of women in leadership roles has less to do with women themselves and more to do with how we interpret leadership traits. Confidence – a trait more associated with men – is often misinterpreted as competence. As a result, charismatic, but incompetent men have fewer barriers to reach the top than women. Individuals in positions to promote and hire managers should think more critically about what seems like a leadership trait versus what is an actual leadership trait. They will find that arrogance and overconfidence – the characteristics that get men into management positions – are also the characteristics that cause poor performance.

These indicators are mostly for travel and entertainment.    It was interesting to watch these sectors recover as the pandemic impact subsid...