Society

"They say in thirty years, a burger and fries could cost $16, a vacation $12,400, and a basic car $65,000," leads a 1996 ad for financial services company TIAA (then…

Old people are always complaining about how things were harder when they were young. Walking to school in the snow, uphill both ways, that whole thing. So forgive me as I embark on what initially m…

Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out

Behind students' increasing pull toward extracurriculars

No. Social justice requires restructuring the systems perpetuating inequities.

In 1942, aboard ship and heading for war, a young sailor—my uncle—wrote a letter home, describing and defining the principles he was fighting for.

Why do we fear being lied to? Because we don’t like others manipulating our beliefs. But our fear of being misled by false news pales by comparison to our fear of suffering total “mind-control”, such as depicted in the films

Dear valued faculty, In light of the recent budget cuts, the university administration thought it would be helpful to clarify a few things about ou...

Today we’re releasing our 2023 U.S. Economic Impact Report with a focus on how small and medium\u002Dsized businesses are using generative AI.

A new SEC filing details all the ways that Trump Media thinks Donald Trump himself could be a major risk to the company.

These kids aren’t lazy. We’re failing them.

An appliance used to be a machine. Now it’s a bureaucracy.

There’s no “go back to 2019 button.”

The Storm raised the bar for women’s sports with its $151 million valuation. They’re doing it again with a new $64 million practice facility.

Abstract In this post, I talk a bit about the world I want to see created by regen web3, using two frameworks which I discovered during research into GREENPILLED - how crypto can regenerative the world. DONUT Economy by Kate Raworth 8 forms of capital by Gregory Landua of Regen Netework This post has absolutely nothing to do with tangible day to day Gitcoin governance, and everthing to do with theory. If Gitcoin is a generator function of innovation, this post is a taxonomy of what I thin...

Anarcho Anarchist Economics Thursday, November 29 2012 This is a write-up of my talk at the 2012 London Anarchist bookfair on Anarchist Economics. I was...

Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.

Channel 4 News finds 255 British people including its presenter Cathy Newman to have been doctored into explicit images

I have never engaged with the world so deeply as an artist.

For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure.

Deep in the product reviews for a pair of $15 gray sweatpants, one commenter writes, bafflingly: “I love these grey sweatpants ever since i received them out of the shein package. They go with almost everything and nice and baggy on my body. The color is easy to wash and can go with coloreds and whites which is very helpful in laundry.” Below, three photos are attached. They show three different women in three different pairs of pants, none of which match the product listing.

Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.

OJ Simpson passed away this week of cancer. He was a man who had everything fame and fortune had to offer, and pretty much lost it all (for reasons we

An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly