Society

The $1.8tn plan would introduce measures including a national childcare programme and free tuition for community college. Plus, fully vaccinated Americans can now go out without a mask

With intentional neighboring at the core of OHANA’s purpose, social infrastructure will play a key role in how the built environment in this new type of neighborhood will encourage and support people coming together to support each other through the life stages.

A definition of social infrastructure with examples.

Molly White, a 28-year-old software engineer who edits Wikipedia pages in her spare time, has become an unlikely thorn in the side of the burgeoning cryptocurrency movement. As the tech and finance world largely embrace crypto tech, she's helping lead a band of skeptics pushing the other direction.

Cowering in a luxury bunker is a lousy retirement plan.

As the 2022 midterms approach, see what issues people in your congressional district care about.

Developers are the engines of growth for any software company. Nurturing a hacker culture is beneficial to the company's bottom line, which eventually will raise the tactical level of the whole operations.

The federal government plans to build several hydrogen hubs around the country. The goal is to find a cleaner replacement for fossil fuels. But there are challenges in how hydrogen is produced.

via NPR When it’s used to fuel a car or power plant, hydrogen’s chief byproduct is water — not climate-warming carbon dioxide. But finding a clean and cheap source for making hydrogen h…

From the dick swinging of 'Top Gun' to the sentimentalism of 'Top Gun: Maverick'

Built to survive a nuclear attack, these Air Force aircraft are expected to fly well past their 50th birthday.

Election models can estimate where votes are out, giving observers a chance to see where the election might be headed.

Where is the internet we were promised? It feels like we’re dominated by megalithic, siloed platforms where users have little or no say over how their data is used and little recourse if they disagree, where direct interaction with users is seen as a bug to be fixed, and where art and creativity...

What should the next trading system be? Can we restore the capacity of the U.S. to produce—and of all nations to regulate capitalism?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò charts a course between cynical corporate liberalism and right-wing anti-wokeness.

New polling shows a bolstered desire for a rapid transition to green energy.

I was walking around San Francisco when I came across this piece of street art. I don’t know the artist, but it was so beautiful that I had to capture it. It represents surveillance — t…

Today on TAP: What the Similac debacle teaches about the consequences of arrogant corporate concentration

Slowly then all at once For people who aren’t paying attention or actively involved, it can seem like cultural change is sudden. One big shift after another. In fact, cultural change always happens…

What would an egalitarian online system actually look like?

How has global income distribution changed over history? Below, we show three distinct periods since the Industrial Revolution.

Last week, the Belgian government launched a proposal that would ban Signal. What's going on?