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The True Cost of Roadkill: Cars Have Caused 60 to 80 Million Deaths in the Last 100 Years
The numbers are mind blowing. According to Roadkill authors Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay, cars have killed more people than both world wars combine…
1 year ago
Is that $320,000 College Degree Really Worth It? The President of Brandeis on why Colleges Must Adapt or Become Irrelevant
It’s the $320,000 question both parents and students are asking themselves: Is that four-year liberal arts degree really worth it? According to Brand…
1 year ago
The Dark Passions Driving American Politics: Why Liberals Must Acknowledge Anger, Fear, and the Lust for Domination
Some liberals might shake their virtuous heads and tut-tut disapprovingly. But, as the Brookings scholar William Galston argues, Donald Trump’s Old T…
1 year ago
The AI Assistant That Knows Your Life Before You Do: The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End?
“It’s happening. The question is whether it’s a dream or a nightmare. This week, OpenAI introduced Pulse, an AI assistant that knows what we want to …
1 year ago
TRUMP IS NOT POPULAR: How a Sub 40% Approval Offers Hope for the Dems
“What Trump is doing is not popular”. For the This Old Democracy podcaster and veteran Democratic activist Micah Sifry, that’s the good news of Trump…
1 year ago
The Idiocracy Trap: Why Smart Machines are making Humans Dumb & Dumber
Jacob Ward warned us. Back in January 2022, the Oakland-based tech journalist published The Loop, a warning about how AI is creating a world without …
1 year ago
Halfway to Hungary: Jonathan Rauch on the Authoritarian Playbook that Trump Borrowed from a Small, Landlocked Central European State
So where exactly is Trump’s America? According to the Brookings fellow Jonathan Rauch, the world’s largest economic, military and cultural power is “…
1 year ago
The Case Against the United Nations: The Israel Obsession, Rwanda, and the Haiti Peacekeeping Scandal
Donald Trump made his own controversial case against the United Nations at the UN today, lecturing world leaders that “the UN is supposed to stop inv…
1 year ago
From Fentanyl to Fulfillment: How the Tuba Civil Rights Movement Can Save American Democracy
As the prize-winning author of Dreamland and The Least of Us, Sam Quinones is one of the most acclaimed authorities on America’s deadly drug epidemic…
1 year ago
Kimmel-Kirk and the End of the Television Age: Why Free Speech Has Never Been Freer
I suspect both left and right have the Kimmel-Kirk story wrong. Rather than being about free speech versus hate speech, it’s actually the story of th…
1 year ago