Democrats: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in California
California is a land of contrasts. The state is home to staggering wealth, world-remaking tech companies, and some of the world’s boldest climate policy. It also has immense income inequality, arguabl...
28 Apr 20231h 18min
Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
On Monday, Fox News abruptly announced that the network and its star primetime host, Tucker Carlson, “have agreed to part ways” after more than a decade. The announcement came less than a week after F...
25 Apr 20231h 23min
Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty
According to the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, 14.3 percent of Americans — nearly 50 million people — were living in poverty in December. The scale of poverty in the U.S....
21 Apr 20231h 17min
The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives
It’s impossible to deny that the U.S. has a serious loneliness problem. One 2018 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 22 percent of all adults — almost 60 million Americans — said they of...
18 Apr 20231h 14min
This Philosopher Wants Liberals to Take Political Power Seriously
America today faces a crisis of governance. In the face of numerous challenges — from climate change, to housing shortages, to pandemics — our institutions struggle to act quickly and decisively. Demo...
14 Apr 20231h 4min
What Biden’s Top A.I. Thinker Concluded We Should Do
In October, the White House released a 70-plus-page document called the “Blueprint for an A.I. Bill of Rights.” The document’s ambition was sweeping. It called for the right for individuals to “opt ou...
11 Apr 20231h 13min
Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy
Typically when we put out a call for audience questions, there’s no single topic that dominates. This time was different. The questions we received were overwhelmingly focused on artificial intelligen...
7 Apr 20231h 3min
The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World
“We rarely think about chips, yet they’ve created the modern world,” writes the historian Chris Miller.He’s not exaggerating. Semiconductors don’t just power our phones and computers; they also enable...
4 Apr 202357min
