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Is Green Growth Possible?
A decade ago, I was feeling pretty pessimistic about climate change. The politics of mitigating global warming just seemed impossible: asking people …
2 years, 3 months ago
Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issu…
2 years, 3 months ago
This Conversation Made Me a Sharper Editor
In our recent series on artificial intelligence, I kept returning to a thought: This technology might be able to churn out content faster than we can…
2 years, 3 months ago
A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism's Failure to Build
There is so much we need to build right now. The housing crunch has spread across the country; by one estimate, we’re a few million units short. And …
2 years, 3 months ago
What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?
Back in 2018, Dario Amodei worked at OpenAI. And looking at one of its first A.I. models, he wondered: What would happen as you fed an artificial int…
2 years, 3 months ago
Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?
The internet is in decay. Do a Google search, and there are so many websites now filled with slapdash content contorted just to rank highly in the al…
2 years, 3 months ago
How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?
There’s something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. It’s clear we’re witnessing the…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Rise of ‘Middle-Finger Politics’
Donald Trump can seem like a political anomaly. You sometimes hear people describe his connection with his base in quasi-mystical terms. But really, …
2 years, 4 months ago
Matter of Opinion: Paul Krugman on Inflation, ‘Bad Vibes’ and 2024
We’ll be back on Friday with a new episode. In the meantime, we wanted to share one of our favorite recent episodes from our sister podcast, “Matter …
2 years, 4 months ago
The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting Ideals
American policy is uniquely hostile to families. Other wealthy countries guarantee paid parental leave and sick days and heavily subsidize early chil…
2 years, 4 months ago