Society

Kevin Drum offers a response to a recent meta-study on the link between lead and violence, blogged by me here. I’ll take this moment to explain why the lead-violence connection never has sat that well with me. Let’s say we are trying to explain why 2022 America is richer than the Stone Age.  We could […]

A wave of job cuts has sent the home market reeling in neighbourhoods where waves of tech professionals – flush with high salaries and housing perks – drove prices upwards in recent years.

Tesla’s accused of breaking US labor laws yet again.

I thought the shaving off of the tenths of a cent or whatever Richard Pryor’s character in Superman III did is a lot more clever than any of the follow-ons, but a 28-year-old software program…

Xi Jinping said his country and Putin’s Russia are friends with “no limits.” The reality is more complicated.

Let's all expand our vocabularies a little in 2023

What is the most American institution of all? The mind first goes in the directions of church, of the military, of football. But if we consider only the systems of modern life developed on United States soil, the most influential must surely be fast food.

Forget return-to-office mandates. The most sought-after talent want ultimate flexibility. Their bosses need to get on board.

Our writing fellow handpicks his Best of 2022.

The Counter Intelligence Programs of the FBI, or COINTELPRO for short, infiltrated, spread rumors about, and assassinated members of political movements in the United States from the 1940s until th…

Kristel from Belgium wrote to us recently, questioning the merit of bringing back the role of the court jester in the business environment.  "I'm Belgium

On Russia and Ukraine, Germans remain wedded to historical and geopolitical delusions.

You may have heard the phrase “big man history.” Suppose you grew up in the United States. In that case, you might have learned that “Lincoln Freed the slaves” or that the “Robber Barons”— Andrew C…

In Chapter Three of his bestselling book, “The Culture Code,” Daniel Coyle wrote about the famous WWI “Christmas Truce” of 1914. On Christmas Day, both

At Okta, diversity, inclusion, and belonging—and identity—are important. We believe that fostering a culture of belonging starts among our own Oktanauts....

This isn’t the first time I’ve written about the problem of Christian Nationalism in this country, and it probably won’t be the last. If you’re the type of political nerd that’s following…

While some in the religious right treat the term as pejorative, there's more and more evidence the ideology was key to the attempted coup.

"Nationalism is an important value that Americans should support: Yea or Nay?"

In my last post, I highlighted Cato Institute scholar Alex Nowrasteh's excellent critique of claims that immigration causes harm by...

If tech workers want to leverage the power to secure our jobs and have real ownership over our work, we must continue to organize.

This year has been a roller coaster for the movement to decentralize the services and tools that we rely on every day. Decentralizing internet services may help remedy concerns ranging from traditional big business competition to online privacy.In order to devote closer attention to these issues...