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Fri, September 22, 2023 | 20:36

Gen Z has good reason to be angry. Will they burn it all down?

Generation Z seems like a paradox: far more open to diverse viewpoints and compromise than older Americans, but also in some ways more dogmatic.

2023-04-09 16:10

Regulating AI will be essential. And complicated

Whether or not calls for pausing AI development, artificial intelligence is going to need regulation. Every technology in history with comparably transformational capabilities has been subject to rules of some sort. What that regulation should look like is going to be an important and complicated problem, one I and others will be writing a lot about it in the months and years...

2023-04-06 16:20

Three takeaways from Trump's historic arrest and arraignment

Since it became clear that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg intended to charge Donald Trump with crimes growing out of hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, close observers have wondered how he would frame the offenses and solve the problems that apparently led him to mothball the indictment shortly after he took office. With Tuesday's dramatic arraignment of the form...

2023-04-06 16:00

Kids deserve to know the truth about America's racist past. Even if it's painful

Last month, school officials in St. Petersburg, Florida, told teachers to stop showing students a Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated an all-white New Orleans elementary school in the 1960s.

2023-04-05 16:20

Reporting the gender pay gap is not enough to close it

Is the home stretch to pay parity the hardest? It's starting to look that way.

2023-04-04 16:10

Trump's indictment is a historic first. Here's why more are likely to follow

The news that a Manhattan grand jury has returned an indictment of Donald Trump - the first criminal charge against a former president in the nation's history - is monumental in itself. We should pause for a moment to appreciate the giant step that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has taken toward accountability for a man who has shown nothing but contempt for the rule...

2023-04-03 16:20

It's Schultz not Starbucks that seems to be lost

Former Starbucks Corp. CEO Howard Schultz kept his cool and stayed on message on Wednesday amid pointed questioning during a Senate committee hearing about the coffee giant's alleged labor law violations. Even as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, described Starbucks as waging “the most aggressive and illegal...

2023-04-02 16:10

Putin ups the ante with nukes in Belarus

Let's all hope that Chinese President Xi Jinping sees this outrage as a personal affront and gives his “friend” in Moscow a good talking to at once.

2023-03-30 16:20

Climate future is bleak. How scientists give their children hope without lying

Climate future is bleak. How scientists give their children hope without lying

Having a child is the most emphatic statement of hope a person can make. I have three young kids, and yet I have trouble remaining optimistic about the world they and their children will inhabit in 2100 and beyond.

2023-03-30 16:20

There's no such thing as artificial intelligence

No one sells the future more masterfully than the tech industry. According to its proponents, we will all live in the “metaverse,” build our financial infrastructure on “web3” and power our lives with “artificial intelligence.” All three of these terms are mirages that have raked in billions of dollars, despite bite back by reality.

2023-03-29 16:20

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