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Fernando Pessoa The Anarchist Banker 1922

A couple of weeks ago, Disney opened an old wound in the comic book community by releasing their new Stan Lee documentary. On the surface, a documentary about one of the most charismatic figur…

In 1990, the US government sent $20,000 and a formal letter of apology to more than 82,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerate

If we as a nation are going to directly address an “underappreciated public health crisis that has harmed individual and societal health,” we must not only acknowledge the power of social infrastructure but also encourage public and private development projects to build and enhance environments that promote connection and further support and invest in institutions that bring people and communities together.

Today on TAP: France could be the next country to elect a far-right president.

Freight rail unions have gradually achieved their key demand from the labor dispute last year.

The authors reject the Cost-of-Thriving Index approach as inadequate for assessing changes in living standards.

How easy is it for a male breadwinner to raise a family? Oren Cass argues that the cost of “thriving,” is increasing. That’s false. When you do the numbers correctly, Winship and Horpedahl show that the cost of thriving is falling. It’s falling more slowly than we would like–but it’s still the case that current […]

By increasing efficiency, reducing errors and cutting costs, automation not only makes remote work possible but also profitable.

His legacy matters enormously for how we consider the future of the Constitution.

Don’t blame partisan judges. The real problem is ‘movement’ judges.

Congress has 36 committees. There’s a big hole in that list.

A friend recommended Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 3-part docuseries on Netflix a few days ago. And I did. The series focused on Arnie and his life in a way that portrayed him as a hero. I got that feeli…

It’s a practice that could introduce further errors into already error-prone models.

At a conference for socialist elected officials, the task is to ‘represent the movement of the future in the movement of the present.’

I opened the Royal Mail app to track a box of plants supposedly arriving today, and saw this: an estimated carbon footprint of my delivery’s emissions. That’s new. I suppose it’s …

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Multnomah County is seeking $51 billion over a disaster that was "virtually impossible" without climate change.

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A history lesson.

Research allays fears that rapid scaling back of production would hit people’s savings and pensions hard

Tech companies seem to expect that we will continue to tolerate their various solutions, without realizing that many of these innovations create more problems.

Remind me why, exactly, these guys have so much control over technological innovation?

Venture capitalists have supercharged surveillance, immiseration, and dispossession. Why should we trust them with so much power over the economy?

The bill includes public transparency requirements for social media platforms and protections for researchers, writes John Perrino.