What We Get Wrong About Poverty
Nathan Cheek at Psyche: Imagine this upsetting scenario: two women are both suffering physical abuse…
The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think
Sunstein and Thaler in The New Yorker: In 1968, Tversky and Kahneman were both rising stars…
The Fire-Breather Tucker Carlson and His Alma Mater St. George’s
By Jack Sullivan at Air Mail: Like all speakers of truth, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson…
‘You Either Live Long or You Live Short, and You Can’t Do Much About it.’
Quote of the Day John Alfred Tinniswood, age 111, was recently confirmed as the world’s…
Governing the Ungovernable
Jess Bidgood at The New York Times: When members of Congress return to Washington from…
What’s Inside the President’s Nuclear Football
Annie Jacobsen at Time: Nuclear threats have reemerged on the world stage. Frequently, Vladimir Putin…
Saturday Poem: Egyptian Archers
In Egyptian art, one archer standsfor all archers, their contour drawn from his thigh, his…
‘Our Rule of Law is Under Attack From Our Own Government, But the World Does Not See This’
Mike Herd, Investigations Editor, The Conversation: Here’s a story about an authoritarian leader of a…
Meeting The QAnon Shaman
Frederick Kaufman at Harper’s Magazine: Jacob Angeli-Chansley, the man the media has dubbed the QAnon…
Habsora: Israel Military AI System “a Mass Assassination Factory”
A recent report claims another system called Where’s Daddy? monitors targets and alerts the military…
Is the Universe Really a ‘Dark Forest’ Full of Hostile Aliens in Hiding?
By Tony Milligan at Singularity Hub: We have no good reason to believe that aliens…