Society

Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than the boring stuff.

EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

What we lose when casual nudity disappears

by Mindy Clegg

by Scott SamuelsonI was a freshman in college when I first read Plato’s Apology, his version of the event that probably made the biggest mark on him: his

Editor's note: A deeply-reported series on the Flock cameras tracking your movements.

Confidence Game The Great Financial Crisis was a crisis of confidence. Due undisciplined lending and risk modeling disconnected from fundamentals, financial firms had lost trust in counterparties. They didn’t believe that partners in the ecosystem were “good for it”, resulting in margin calls and

I left the election season and didn’t send this newsletter for a few weeks. Mostly because I was fiddling with the tool to send it with, was traveling and...

To turn technical breakthroughs into real-world change, AI must overcome the friction of politics, policy, and human institutions.

Cash-strapped farmers, gaps in the public safety net, and food inspection backlogs that could reshape who eats what in the weeks, months, and years to come.

Social media has been a familiar, even mundane, part of life for nearly two decades. It can be easy to forget it was not always that way. In 2008, social media was just emerging into the mainstream. Facebook reached 100 million users that summer. And a singular candidate was integrating social media into his political campaign: Barack Obama. His campaign’s use of social media was so bracingly innovative, so impactful, that it was viewed by journalist David Talbot and others as the strategy that enabled the first term Senator to win the White House...

As far as I could tell, women’s soccer started with the 99ers, and there was no looking back. But I was wrong.

My conversation with Zev Shalev

How Top Grads Strategically Use AI to Improve Their Chances of Success

I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...

A Political Theory of American Collapse

“Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.”

From an American with Love

The Trump administration just quietly removed a memorial to Black U.S.

The Marketization of Conscience in an Age Without Shame

I’ve been re-watching Tony Gilroy’s masterpiece Andor. In the first season, the story reaches one of its most evocative moral crescendos when Andy Serkis’ character, Kino Loy, delivers one of the most stirring monologues in contemporary screenwriting.

Truth Costs More Than Most People Are Willing to Pay

Viking Properties, Inc. v. Holm - 118 P.3d 322

Thoughts on the artist's role in cultural change.