Society

We’ll never, as a nation, take on the ultra-rich if millions of Americans identify with them.

“The key takeaway from our analysis is that remote work is shaping up to massively disrupt the value of commercial office real estate,” they wrote.

A sign of the maturity of cyber ops, the Department of Defense has recognized and defined what "expeditionary cyberspace operations" are.

The leak contains 100GB of confidential data from Tesla.

As negotiations between the White House and Republicans stall, economists and markets are worried Congress won’t act in time, which could trigger a financial crisis.

Nothing is free, nothing is allowed, if someone doesn't profit. On the freedom to sleep under the stars, lead a self-determined life, and what that even means.

The theorist’s magnum opus wasn’t a blueprint for dictators—it was an ode to institutional constraints on leaders.

An expert in computing responds to Tara Isabella Burton’s “I Know Thy Works.”

Read a new short story by Tara Isabella Burton about a dinner party, an accident, and the slipperiness of ethics.

Social media distorts the mental models we build of the world, degrading our collective intelligence and our ability to make good decisions.

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