Society

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.

What Elon Musk is doing to Twitter right now is what happens when someone with the same ideology and worldview as James Damore has enough power and money to be in charge of a company instead of jus…

Compact Magazine, a radical American journal

None of us agreed to live like this, but still we do. Consent is implied.

Well-being is a two-way street. Your employer has a responsibility to create the best working conditions they can—and they benefit when they do.

The case for GDP plus GDD

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, a darling of the American right, markets himself very differently from American populists.

While America made the network that would become the internet, programmers in Chile were building a vision of their own.