Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning
“Today, we are supercompetent when it comes to efficiency, utility, speed, convenience, and getting ahead in the world; but we are at a loss concerning what it’s all for,” Leon Kass writes in his 2017...
14 Dec 20211h 5min
Families Are Drowning in Care Costs. Here’s How To Change That.
Every day in the United States, more than 10,000 babies are born and 10,000 people turn 65. But America doesn’t have anything close to a comprehensive family policy. That means no guaranteed paid fami...
7 Dec 202153min
Predicting the Future Is Possible. ‘Superforecasters’ Know How.
Can we predict the future more accurately?It’s a question we humans have grappled with since the dawn of civilization — one that has massive implications for how we run our organizations, how we make ...
3 Dec 202152min
Best Of: How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Unaffordable
Joe Biden’s economic agenda is centered on a basic premise: The United States needs to build. To build roads and bridges. To build child care facilities and car-charging stations. To build public tran...
30 Nov 20211h 8min
Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police?
In 2020 the United States experienced a nearly 30 percent rise in homicides from 2019. That’s the single biggest one-year increase since we started keeping national records in 1960. And violence has c...
23 Nov 20211h 25min
The Case Against Loving Your Job
The compulsion to be happy at work “is always a demand for emotional work from the worker,” writes Sarah Jaffe. “Work, after all, has no feelings. Capitalism cannot love. This new work ethic, in which...
19 Nov 20211h 22min
Are We Witnessing the Mainstreaming of White Power in America?
Over the course of Donald Trump’s presidency, the far-right fringe became a surprisingly visible and influential force in American politics. Eruptions of extremist violence — including the Unite the R...
16 Nov 20211h 9min
It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or Democracy?
“Making it harder to vote, and harder to understand what the party is really about — these are two parts of the same project” for the Republican Party, Jay Rosen writes. “The conflict with honest jour...
12 Nov 20211h 14min
