Society

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s mini-stories season! Gather the kids around the fire because We have a year-end mix of short stories about a rogue architect, spooky kitchens, a hundred year old music streaming service, and the crazy way the French tried to make telling time less crazy. Let’s go!!! The

No one likes archaic social obligations and unpaid emotional labor. But are enough of us saying no to them?

A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.

A new paper explores what "supercentenarians" have in common. Turns out it’s bad record-keeping.

This is a quote I like that’s attributed to Alvin Toffler from his 1970 book, Future Shock: The illiterate of the twenty-fi

A new study featuring more than 7,000 participants from six countries found that choice deprivation—a feeling of not having enough to choose from—not choice overload is the most common consumer experience.

A monopoly is a market structure characterized by a single seller or producer that excludes viable competition from providing the same product.

At last, this was the year he lost some patience.

I just ran across an article about a high school girl whose classmates deepfaked naked images of her. I don’t want to link to it because…

When Disney picked up Marvel Studios, it was a big deal, but without the help of the late Apple boss Steve Jobs, it might not have ever happened.

A few last-minute gift ideas you aren’t really thinking about. (But really, an excuse for us to look back at 2023 in Tedium.)

Here are seven reasons.

A lot more people watched Wednesday than The Crown.

Economists are trying to figure out the dissonance between a recovering economy and America's deep pessimism. They're looking in the wrong place.

While regulators have long struggled with how to attack big tech, a landmark ruling and a big disclosure suggests that big tech is finally getting noticed.

Or, How States Create Their Own Enemies You may or may not be familiar with the concept of “blowback.” Basically, it’s the idea that most foreign policy threats faced by nation-states are the unintended consequences of their own past foreign interventions and exercises of power. The October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel is a...

David Graeber gets to the heart of human (and more than human) nature.

The tragedy that is a pre-determined life of monotony.

“No one chasing money in media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform.”

If a government website works well, you probably have the USDS to thank.

Kate Starbird's attempt to promote factual information and boost democracy has gotten her sued, blasted by Congressional inquiries and subjected to a death threat.

The cost of assisted living, nursing homes and other types of care for older adults has risen dramatically across the country, but it also varies widely by state. See how much different types of care cost in your state.

A contract forced on railroad workers, and anti-labor conduct by Starbucks and Amazon, showed the difficulty of organizing in 2022.