Society

Online sports betting is bad for sports — and for gamblers.

Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.

Once, eating whole foods and avoiding toxins was associated with a lefty worldview. Now, being a “crunchy mom” is more often about “health freedom.”

Adversary cases from the FTX collapse further expose how crypto companies do business: with secret acquisitions of “grey area” businesses, buying influence, and creative accounting.

The underrated way energy efficiency has made life better, and climate progress possible.

“The intention economy” arrived in the world in a Linux Journal column by that title, written by me in March 2006. A few months later, when I became a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman …

Folks wrung their hands a lot this year about reading. "No one buys books," Elle Griffin argued this spring, although apparently Bible sales are surging, as – according to The Washington Times at least, "Gen Z is sick and tired of predecessors' self-centered godlike hubris." Joke's on The Times, of course,

Squid Game, AI, A Long December, treadmills, and future historians

billions of images have been...without permission on Facebook, Instagram...That's okay, but when a little old lady interior design blogger

Tesla builds cars in what used to be the NUMMI factory, a joint venture between Toyota and GM (which meant it was run as a Toyota plant with [...]

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There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial messa...

Why are Reviews of Squid Game Season two Overlooking Capitalism?

A slave mortgage was a financial instrument used by financiers wherein money was lent on the basis of the value of enslaved people. There are records of slave mortgages in the United States and in South Africa. According to scholar Bonnie Martin, "the time lag between the recording of mortgages and foreclosures, when added to the dispersed nature of the mortgage recording process, made this financial engine relatively invisible, allowing potentially large economic and human consequences to remain unrecognized." As historian Calvin Schermerhorn put it, slave mortgages "drew equity out of [slave] bodies to reinvest in [sugar] refinement technology and more enslaved workers". Settlers fleeing a slave mortgage crisis was one of the precipitating factors of the American colonization of the Republic of Texas in the 1830s.

Evolve Bank at its peak managed around $10 billion for financial technology firms, but it is in turmoil following the collapse of middleman Synapse.

WSJ got rare access to a criminal enclave in the Philippines from which gangs targeted people around the world, including Americans.

America loves jocks, and that's why we don't have any good engineers... or something.

Voters looking into the new candidate are interested in what he has to say, but that’s different from banking their votes.

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Having a good set of (working) headlights is a crucial feature of any motor vehicle, assuming you want to be able to see the road ahead of you when there’s a lack of sunshine. Headlights are …

When we first learn about money and banking in high school or university, we are all taught that money has three functions: medium of exchan...

What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octob...

Musk got the only thing that he wanted. Does Trump realize it?

The agency has been getting played for years, but is reluctant to change.

The U.S. Postal Service loses money because of stifling rules and a mandate to serve the entire country. Privatization would only raise costs and reduce service.

While I now like dogs — hi, Sadie Michel — I wasn’t really a dog person until I met Mr. Gibbs, who out of nowhere captured my heart. He very quickly became my dog-son. Gibbs was a black toy poodle …

In 2004, critics demanded better than mediocre Christmas movies. Why are we so reluctant to do so now?

“Why on earth would you brag to your users that you've partnered with a bunch of protofascists?"

Hypervigilance adapts one to living in an abusive situation.

Spotify’s plot against musicians