Society

Workplace dictatorships.

He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

Here’s what Trump gets right — and wrong — about the WHO.

Getting oxygen from regolith takes 24 kWh per kilogram, and we’d need tonnes.

The issue revolves around a condition called auditory processing disorder (APD), in which the brain struggles to interpret sounds and speech, even when a person's hearing is...

“Go ahead and make me.” OK, we will.

Happy Presidents' Day

No.344 — Major AI copyright case in the US ⊗ Toolkit for applied strategic foresight ⊗ The Anthropic Economic Index ⊗ The Forest Speaks

The US president has scrapped paper straws because they allegedly ‘explode’ – a bit like the PM’s reputation if he keeps refusing to confront him on the big issues

This explains everything.

A review of Balaji Srinivasan's book, The Network State.

A narcissist's ability to magically erase any wrongdoings from their memory is harmful.

Democrats’s cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.

Get your mind right.

Lydia Mugambe, who is currently on trial at Oxford Crown Court, denies the four charges against her.

Of this special de luxe Independence edition of the centenary issue of the writings of Thomas Paine there have been printed five hundred numbered copies....

Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.

A 501(c)(3) dedicated to archiving and publishing hacked and leaked data.

Where I categorise 76 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook

Professor Christina Pagel of University College London has mapped the actions of the Trump administration’s first few weeks into a Venn diagram (above) with “five broad domains that correspond to features of proto-authoritarian states”

A startup called Graze, which lets you build your own feeds for the Bluesky social network, has caught investors' attention. In addition to offering tools

Planes were falling from the sky and the sky itself was falling but didn’t the driveway still need shoveling? Salt for the icy steps. The kitchen sink full once again. And every day a new reminder that crying can get you anything you want in the world if it’

The May 24, 2024, episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

Twenty-fifth in the News Commons series Southern California has two seasons: Fire and Rain. Rain didn’t begin this year until a few days after Fire ended apocalyptically, incinerating much of…

Some time in the coming months, tickets will go on sale for the fall production of Waiting for Godot on Broadway — a new production starring Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves — and I swear to you right now, I am already ready to hit the “buy” button. I first read Samuel

Some things I learned from Allison Sheridan's interview of Jason Snell.

Everything matters until it doesn't.

In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national security are profound. First, it was reported that people associated with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed the US Treasury computer system, giving them the ability to collect data on and potentially control the department’s roughly ...