Society

How the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the longtime graveyard of regulation in the public interest, became its unlikely champion.

Big Noise Tactical Media was a radical media collective founded circa 1998 by Jacque Soohen and Rick Rowley. “Zapatista (1998), Black and Gold (1999), and This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000), …

As Langston Hughes said in 1936, “Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America.” Antifa means anti-fascist. Do you believe in and support fascism? Do you beli…

The generator industry has touted automatic shut-off switches as a lifesaving fix for carbon monoxide poisoning. But the voluntary standard falls short of what federal regulators say is necessary to eliminate deaths.

With so many economic, political, and social problems facing us today, there is little point in focusing attention on something that is not one. The false fear of which I speak is the chance of US debt default. There is no need to speculate on what that likelihood is, I [...]

I could hear Meet the Press on in the background at my house on Sunday and the reporters were discussing various means of reducing the budget deficit. I didn’t bother to sit down and listen, however, because I knew that none of it made any sense. All were [...]

MMT is no longer limited to books and journals. It's being used to support policy proposals and is both lauded and attacked in the popular press. The latter has accelerated of late, particularly as spearheaded by several prominent economists. I argue, however, that they are missing the point.

History repeats itself, so the saying goes. It seems more accurate to consider that people repeat history and make choices similar to those others have made in the past. The continuity of choice is…

I woke up this AM to laugh my ass off over this commercial spoof from The Last Show with Stephen Colbert. It’s in response to President Biden’s proposal that all airlines be required to…

The Black Panther Party’s Franklin Lynch Peoples’ Free Health Center in Boston, ca. 1970 Men with guns. Armed community self-defense. Confrontations with predatory police departments. For many peop…

One way to serve the community is to see it as a market and solve one of its problems. When people choose to buy something, it’s ostensibly because the thing you sell is worth more to them th…

This image and article were inspired by Episode 606 of the Tim Ferriss Podcast, with Balaji S. Srinivasan.  Humans need to belong. We need to belong to

And a few months ago, while driving across the wide, stretching grasslands of South Dakota, reporter Fil Corbitt turned off the freeway and followed the signs to the ultimate roadside stop: Wall Drug. What was once simple, small-town pharmacy during the Great Depression has been expanded to take up an entire city block. And in

On the modern battlefield, brains and adaptability yield far better results than ruthless brutality does.

There are a number of unwritten rules in the world of espionage. These practices of the profession — though quietly accepted universally as “fair game” — can engender haughty rhetorical denunciations when an offending state is caught engaging in them. Sometimes, countries will strategically disclose evidence of these sorts of intelligence activities.

A must-see interactive analysis of Celebratory Gunfire, including animations and projections on how far and how fast bullets travel

The explosion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services worldwide has amplified a range of cybersecurity risks to individuals’ data, company networks, critical infrastructure, and the internet ecosystem writ large. In light of this systemic risk, this report offers a multinational strategy to enhance the security of the IoT ecosystem. It provides a framework for a clearer understanding of the IoT security landscape and its needs, looks to reduce fragmentation between policy approaches, and seeks to better situate technical and process guidance into cybersecurity policy.

“To make “I’m a Cop,” I spent over two years reading every statement I could find from U.S. police union leaders--reading transcripts of press conferences, Twitter accounts, and Facebook posts. Here’s some of what I found. A 🧵.”

Why are so many people now embracing demagogues? Barbara Walter, political scientist and author of “How Civil Wars Start,” tells ProPublica that the vital signs of healthy democracy are in decline around the world.

Another day, another $100 million lost to crypto-hungry criminals, and it's not even the first time coins have evaporated because of Wintermute.

Maybe we don't want to go with the netflow, man

Worries about polio, monkeypox, and Covid-19 are rising. Here’s how to gather your health information, even if you’ve lost the paper records.