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Bessemer at the height of Jim Crow must have been wild. From Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell, Ep 263 with Killer Mike on Dec 13, 2023: “So in Bessemer, in the late 50s, there was a sort of panic…

On changes in the US governing regime, depicted as revisions to the Constitution.

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.

If legend is to be believed, three disparate social forces in early 20th-century America – the temperance movement, the rise of car culture, and the Scots-Irish culture of the South – c…

The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.

Even a limited nuclear conflict could cause years of potentially devastating impacts to climate and societies.

Black empathy toward "Gingers" went beyond understanding, as Black folks extended an invitation to the cookout, but not so fast...

Not long after The Intention Economy came out in May, 2012, Robert Thomson, Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal, wanted the book's opening chapter to serve as the cover essay of the Marketplace section of an upcoming issue. Harvard Business Review Press didn't like that idea, so I wrote an original piece based on the book,…

What is Cadaver? Cadaver is a command-line WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) client for Unix-like systems, including Kali Linux. It allows

Beyond Flags and Anthems—The Moral Courage to Defend Democracy

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of interviewing Niko Stratis about her new book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. You can read an excerpt here. A little ghost for the offeringThe Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by

Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech.

Predictably, my theories are all technological and economic.

Communities are learning digital security and building autonomous servers to take control of their own data.

Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities -- one

Why the Global Democratic Community Must Respond Before It’s Too Late

by Marci Shore

The Trump administration's policy ideas to incentivize women to have more kids resemble those pushed by authoritarian regimes throughout history.

Imagine if we were at war with a foreign power that bombed most of the federal buildings in Washington, destroying the records and functions of those departments and killing millions of federal workers – bombs falling on Health and Human Services, on the Justice Department, the Department of Interior, Veterans Affairs,

Don’t let polarization distract you from one of the most important issues the world faces.

The collapse of voting rights enforcement at DOJ is not policy drift. It’s sabotage.