Society

Lynch’s films and TV series reflected the dark, ominous, often bizarre underbelly of American culture – one increasingly out of the shadows today.

Source: Better Business Bureau The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example . In...

Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of everyday Americans as they suck up to the powerful billionaires who will soon be publicly calling the shots.

VPNs are having a moment. On January 1st, Florida joined 18 other states in implementing an age verification law that burdens Floridians' access to sites that host adult content, including

The official US poverty rate is based on an outdated metric.

Nationally representative survey data from The Center for Democracy & Technology finds schools subjectively and broadly block students from information online

At a landmark gathering in California, workers discussed defenses against artificial intelligence and surveillance technology

In December, Cooler Screens shut down access to hundreds of the digitized fridge doors, which Walgreens claims affected sales.

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Stimulants in warfare are nothing new, but now they're overheating Sudan's bloody internal conflict

It’s time to prepare for the worst-case scenario under Trump.

Wall Street execs predict 200,000 layoffs, due to artificial intelligence (AI). As technology impacts finance, and other sectors, here's how to prepare your career.

Factory farming’s political and cultural influence, and its impacts on American life, explained.

It’s well known that the voting methods we use are highly defective, as they fail to meet fundamental criteria like positive responsiveness, the Pareto principle, and stability. Positive responsiveness (monotonicity) means that if a candidate improves on some voters’ ballots, this should not reduce the candidate’s chances of winning. Yet, many voting methods, including runoffs […]

After two-thirds of Swiss voters rejected the government's proposed e-ID system in 2021, a slightly revamped "Digital Passport Act (E-ID Act)" is back on the political agenda

More realistic takes on BRICS, including by Michael Hudson.

On the fundamental flaws in a study meant to assess the popularity, or lack thereof, of capitalism in the US.

As a new study suggests that a proportion of Generation Z would rather hire a professional to change a lightbulb or hang a picture frame, Ellie Muir looks into why – and explains how DIY has become a privilege in the current economic climate

In a 1958 essay, economist Leonard Read argued that no one knows how to make a pencil. In a complex economy, the components of this simple implement — cedar, lacquer, graphite, ferrule, factice, pumice, wax, and glue — are contributed by a network of specialists who never meet. “There isn’t a single person … including the president of the pencil company, who contributes more than a tiny, infinitesimal bit of know-how.” As if to disprove this idea, student Thomas Thwaites set out in 2009 to build a toaster from scratch. He bought a £3.94 consumer unit and reverse-engineered it, hoping...

Racial threats and slights take a toll on health, but the continual invalidation and questioning of whether those so-called microaggressions exist has an even more insidious effect, research shows.

US climate policy has led to a surge in manure-based “biogas.” Critics say it’s propping up factory farming.

On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallet...

(originally published Summer 2017) Given the longevity of his parents, we can say President Trump is very likely to thrive until he is 90 years old. I posit that those years will be in office or in…

In these times of polarisation it's important to understand Allport's Theory of Escalation and stand back to reflect.

Several fires in California could cause billions in damage, further straining the state’s fragile insurance market.

Why did water hydrants run dry in the midst of a conflagration? City officials stressed that the shortage was due to low water pressure, not a complete…

Why the working class needs to make a hostile takeover of the Democrats.