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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…

Many people are hesitant to travel to Mexico due to concerns about safety. In this video, Andrew Henderson of Nomad Capitalist compares Mexico to the United States and explains why he believes that…

The New Right’s embrace of the “politics of war” is utterly reckless. No amount of friend–enemy Manichaeism or state-of-emergency governance will transform American pluralism into moral unity.

Ignoring ChatGPT and its cousins won’t get us anywhere. In fact, these systems reveal issues we too often miss

Anti-government organizations are filling a disaster-response gap — and using it to spread their message.

When everyone can sound intelligent, elite conversations will become less intelligible.

The times the U.S. failed to meet its financial obligations.

Wendy’s, the fast-food chain, is teaming up with Google to automate its drive-through ordering system with AI-driven chatbots. “The goal is to streamline the ordering process and prevent long…

Salaries for developers surged over the past few years, but those gains weren't even distributed globally.

“Who is the aggressor?” That depends on which of these maps from the Cold War you choose to believe. Are both true? Are both lying?

A growing movement is pushing back against long-held orthodoxy, arguing that it’s time to abandon these outposts and bring the troops home.