Society

Marc Andreessen, a man worth nearly two billion dollars, a man who lives in a $177 million compound in Malibu, a man who has been on the board of Facebook and Hewlett-Packard and who likely hasn’t experienced a struggle in decades, wants you to believe he’s a victim.

Poet Lemn Sissay: “Superman was a foster child. Harry Potter was a foster child. Jane Eyre was adopted. Luke Skywalker was f

For the New Yorker, Daniel Immerwahr reviews a new book, Steven Conn’s The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What

It is common lore in YIMBY circles that Tokyo is such an inexpensive city because Tokyo/Japan has allowed so much freedom to build.  Sometimes it is mentioned that Japanese building and regulatory decisions are made at higher levels than the strictly local, which lowers the power of the NIMBYs to restrict building. I don’t doubt […]

A new investigation into the global surveillance crisis by the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International’s Security Lab, today begins to reveal the shocking truth about how far the industry’s tentacles have spread and how ineffective EU regulation has been in controlling it.  The ‘Predator Files’ focuses on the […]

The world is at war. And you will be part of it.

Singapore summit hears how private sector's constant security sins create risk for sovereigns

This is the view of our home planet from Earth-Sun Lagrange point 1, about a million miles away, courtesy of the EPIC instrument https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ on the DSCOVR spacecraft. From this di...

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In the face of a depressing present and an even worse dystopian future, we are reverting to primitive tribalism and hate. A world at war, forever.

‘Dude,’ ‘ladies,’ ‘you guys,’—these address terms are complicated because their meaning changes so often.

The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.

Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.

Discussing the ’90s comedy Family Matters from the context of the incredible comic persona work Jaleel White was doing as a child.

Before streaming took off, Fox was notorious for setting shows up to fail. Even the network's hit series Bones could only avoid being canceled for so long.

I continue my Forbes kick by looking at the Great Gatsby Curve among the richest Americans — the tendency for increasing inequality to come with decreasing social mobility.

Leaders are in a losing battle with their employees over office attendance.

Here to break through banking and make life easy.

European commissioner Thierry Breton warned X it could be fined for failing to control disinformation and illegal content. But critics say his threats lack teeth.

This Victorian dictionary collects the cant of thieves, the slang of costermongers, and many other argots.

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While environmentalists have long warned of a planet with too many people, now some economists are warning of a future with too few.