Society

Researchers found that taxes on sweetened beverages funded programs mainly benefiting lower-income households, including grocery subsidies and pre-K education.

My September, 2022 column for Locus Magazine

Let us tell you a story about tens of millions of people and tens of billions of dollars. It’s a short story. It’s a true story too. It goes like this: In

A covnersation with philosopher William MacAskill.

Disclosing Trump's plans to falsely claim victory was just the start.

A new paper, The Injustice of Under-Policing, makes a point that I have been emphasizing for many years, namely, relative to other developed countries the United States is under-policed and over-imprisoned. …the American criminal legal system is characterized by an exceptional kind of under-policing, and a heavy reliance on long prison sentences, compared to other […]

What does it mean to be an actor’s actor? Or a writer’s writer? Or … you get the idea. Let’s make sense of a phrase that shapes how we think about success.

Posted on Tuesday 16 Aug 2022. 1,207 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

The weight of one million American physicians would be considerable.

Max Collins, the lead singer of the band Eve 6 has penned a great piece for Popula, noting that owning media is now an act of countercultural defiance. Specifically, he’s speaking out against…

Last week, the Haudenosaunee Nationals traveled to Ireland for the lacrosse world championships … and in a tender moment of international solidarity, the Irish government accepted the passports tha…

A series of incremental changes over the years has transformed the tool from an explorative search function to one that is ripe for deception.

Substack recently fired one of their freelance editors, Sam Thielman, in an explicit retaliation for the fact that one of the writers with whom Thielman had been working had chosen not to renew his…

With a new bill, gig-economy companies aren’t just targeting their own workers. They’re coming for everyone.

Corporate lawyers have laid out the blueprint to neuter the Federal Trade Commission.

Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense

Plus, stories from the recent past of Future Tense.

It is always a mistake to give up our privacy in exchange for convenience.

The NYC Mayor is tired of the Texas governor's foolywang. We're here for it.

Everybody's is talking about saying "no" to doing more at work, except people of color