Society

From the dawn of agriculture to the coming age of artificial intelligence.

Regardless of its nature, your job is likely to overlap with AI in the near future. That doesn’t mean your job will be replaced.

Fergie Chambers is Heir to One of America’s Richest Families — and a 'Professional Revolutionary' Determined to Overthrow the United States

When Parisians got tired of cemeteries during the French Revolution, they conscripted priests to relocate bones of more than six million deceased forebears to empty limestone quarries below the cit…

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Deming's First Theorem: Nobody gives a hoot about profit People spend a great deal of time worrying about profits and claiming credit or diverting blame for profit results. So why did Dr. Deming say "Nobody gives a…

Christine Rosen on surveilling alone

And how we can save it.

Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.

The president must address immigration to win in November. Here’s how.

Trainees at the Joint C-SUAS University try to knock DJI's out of the sky

The ‘progressive’ super-rich have no idea how much the public loathes them.

A little recap of the last 4 or so years.

If there’s one thing I wish I burn entirely to the ground and wipe away all traces and remnants of, its the misplaced notion that the productivity of Knowledge...

Cody Smith was elected in November 2022, when the Texas city held its the first mayoral election since a gunman spent an hour shooting 19 children and two teachers at…

Freedom is a lie.

Efforts by Obama and Biden to enforce labor laws have been systematically undermined by right-wing courts and legislators. This should be a prime election theme.

For the last eight years or so, one thing has become quite clear: the media has been effectively unable to deal with Donald Trump and Trumpism. He is unique to our political system. He has no shame…

On the Neglected Books site, there is a fine meditation on rescuing forgotten writers and their works from oblivion, and why this is important. As its author Brad Bigelow explains: I have…

The world of work needs a new script

Overviews of issues, trends, narratives, platforms and actors.

Why treating AI like a person is the future

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

Local physicians and researchers say long-term solutions like new training programs could help bridge the access gap.