Society

Now that the 2024 election campaigns have ramped up in earnest (absurdly & obscenely more than a year before the actual election),

Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward appeared at an event linked to Matt Shea and religious extremists who have made inroads in the Inland Northwest.

STANFORD, CA—In the results of a new study published in the Journal Of Woe, researchers from Stanford University revealed Tuesday that “truly being seen” still ranks among the worst possible experiences in human existence. “We’ve found conclusive evidence that realizing somebody has managed to look past your…

“The Blind Side” reinforces insidious stereotypes about what Black people owe white people.

The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.

In a terrifying summer, a search for safety

Habitual and nonhabitual social media users respond differently to likes, shares and comments.

Netflix's most-watched original movie is a microcosm of the worst impulses of the streamer’s blockbuster cinema.

The virtues of the market and the deficiencies of central planning have become common sense for many socialist economists, both in the capitalist countries and in those of ‘actually existing socialism’. Some spirited defences have recently been made of non-market forms of economic co-ordination, particularly by Ernest Mandel, . . .

Was Joe Mauri playing everyone all along?

Companies aren’t asking for your feedback. They’re begging you for data.

Are the two diametrically opposed? Or does one emerge from the other?

- The larger our past gets the smaller our present feels - The 2011 BAFTA award winning short film from Mikey Please. For full festival and awards info visit http://www.TheEaglemanStag.com Follow…

Ads are everywhere on the web, but they are also incredibly annoying. Can ad-based businesses survive in the long-term?

World population is widely projected to peak around 2050-90 at roughly 9-11B, with ~40% living in Africa. World population would then decline. But how long, and how far? The median respondent in my Twitter

Dark web holds secrets that most people wouldn't even want to know. Revealing the darkest places of the dark web in this article.

There are a lot of conspiracy theories related to the dark web. While most of them are fake, some are definitely worth considering.

As a child, nothing warmed me more than my mother’s “Three C’s Soup”: Cabbage, Carrot, Carraway from Jane Brody’s Good Food Book: Living the High Carbohydrate Way (published in 1980 and still in pr…

By standing together, we can build a better version of the tech industry.

Technology—the devices, the industry, the political ideology underpinning it, and the policy and legislative agendas around it—present critical tensions for rights and freedoms in the digital age which stand to impact all of us. So how can we have the requisite discussions when the same rhetorical weapons are repeatedly used to crush criticism?

You can learn a lot from utopias, even though you (probably) don’t live in one.

When AI Taylor Swift sings “My Way,” who gets paid?

Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus. Hackers have found a way into that data supply chain, and are advertising access in group chats used by violent criminals who rob, assault, and shoot targets.

The goal of Death Star is simple.

‘Working forests’ like state-run Tiger Mountain retain greenhouse gases — but logging is deeply entrenched in Northwest economies.

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

If you’ve never watched it, Kirby Ferguson’s “Everything is a Remix” series (which was recently updated from the original version that came out years ago) is an excellent look at how stupid our cop…