The Present

Companies refer to like-minded strangers when recommending products to you.

A new study of thousands links right-wing authoritarian attitudes and feeling one’s life is more meaningful.

The technology is poised to change how many companies operate.

A new study outlines why the tobacco and coal industries warrant “corporate death sentences.”

Here’s how “human work” will supplant the traditional idea of jobs.

Numerous critics have called for the ban of the infamous instruction manual for violent civil disobedience.

For the Japanese in World War II, surrender was unthinkable. So unthinkable that many soldiers continued to fight even after the island nation eventually did surrender.

Advances in satellite imagery are shining a light.

Who were the most divisive Americans?

Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by “correlation does not imply causation.”

A new book on the music distribution service claims it is.

That’s one way to reduce the national debt.

Why do people buy into stories that are clearly lies? Hannah Arendt can help us understand.

Evolutionarily speaking, being gay is still something of an enigma

Seemingly small moments of discrimination often pass unnoticed.

Through calculated use of gossip, women, non-citizens, or slaves wielded a potent weapon against those who wronged them.

The world’s next superpower might just resurrect the Middle Ages.

Finland and the U.S. have chosen opposing answers to the question of how much standardized testing is too much.

Former NYTimes executive editor Jill Abramson dissects the big problem with internet news.

…and hopes for big benefits.

Throughout history, anarchists have been responsible for bombings and assassinations, including some very recent ones.

He’s enflamed conversation about socialism across America.

Are Americans growing more skeptical of promises of investment from massive (digital) companies?

In one generation, the climate of many American cities will experience a noticeable shift.

Food is about to change.

A guaranteed basic income is an old solution to a new problem of labor automation.

An upcoming experiment will test how well the nation can function on its internal internet.

We keep hearing that Scandinavia has perfected socialism, but is that true?

Russia’s famed intelligence agency was often successful in getting American secrets.

News doesn’t sell. That’s lethal to journalism – and democracy.