Society

Here are the basic steps any company will need to go through to give workers ownership.

Since colonial times, people have sought out underground networks to escape persecution. After ‘Roe’ falls, women seeking abortions must rely on old strategies and new templates.

In his book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, Jeremy Rifkin explores the rise of collaborative commons in the global economy.

A constitutionally problematic Texas law limiting social media companies exercising their First Amendment rights to curate the content they carry can go into effect after a federal appeals court lifted a lower court’s injunction blocking it. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

By connecting incarcerated people with support networks, we cut recidivism and sustainably reduce prison populations. Ameelio’s ecosystem of products helps everyone — from families to corrections officials to service providers — empowering successful reentry from day one.

Art Donovan (Jack Bannon) asks questions. Charlie Hume (Mason Adams) answers. From the Lou Grant episode “Hollywood” (December 17, 1979): ...

Not all who decentralize are bros.

pUC-Berkeley’s Nicholas Weaver has been studying cryptocurrency for years. He thinks it’s a terrible idea that will end in disaster. /p

Krispy Kreme grew to become a doughnut behemoth in the US. The formula was simple: Scarce supply, high short-term taste satisfaction, and a dozen priced almost the same as just four. As a result, m…

Tucker Carlson can get on TV every night, spout racist lies about a paranoid conspiracy, and inspire his viewers to commit acts of violence against innocent people. There will never be a meaningful consequence for his actions. This is by design.

Facebook said it did not "build and withhold any News Feed changes based on potential impact on any one political party.” Internal documents say otherwise.

Don’t touch that dial!

B Corp certification shows that your open source business runs responsibly in terms of its environmental impact, its treatment of workers and suppliers, its impact on communities, and its governance.

The boiling frog syndrome suggests that if a frog jumps into a pot of boiling water, it immediately jumps out — but if a frog jumps into a slowly heating pot, it senses no danger an…

Companies like Zappos have empowered employees to replace their bosses. The result: smarter decisions, more teamwork, and better work-life balance.

Our two-year investigation, including hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests and a comprehensive review of ICE’s contracting and procurement records, reveals that ICE now operates as a domestic surveillance agency.

Two weeks or so before Elon Musk prevailed in his attempt to strike a deal to buy Twitter, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and entrepreneur Keith Rabois tweeted a story from Musk’s startup days. Once, at Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Musk had noticed a group of interns milling around while they waited in a line for coffee.

As senior leaders of a policy communications firm, we help CEOs navigate complicated political issues every day. When it comes to responding to news about abortion restrictions, there’s a simple playbook companies should follow.

In the 19th century, pregnancy was seen as something to be hidden, and maternity wear reflected that. Rihanna is doing exactly the opposite.

At Princeton in the 1940s, Albert Einstein became a close friend of logician Kurt Gödel, whose incompleteness theorems lie at the heart of modern mathematics. Toward the end of his life Einstein said that his “own work no longer meant much, that he came to the Institute merely … to have the privilege of walking home with Gödel.” In 1947 Einstein and economist Oskar Morgenstern accompanied Gödel to his U.S. citizenship exam because they were concerned about his unpredictable behavior: During his voluminous preparation for the exam, Gödel said, he had uncovered a flaw in the U.S. constitution that could...

At Google I/O, ‘ambient computing’ is on everyone’s lips…but it was never meant to be another world of screens as Google is presenting.

This is one reason why some people rather work from home indefinitely.