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AI: the greatest disability aid since the wheelchair?
AI can serve as assistive technology to help people who suffer from cognitive dysfunction.
Universal basic income: Towards a new society by 2050
How will people support themselves and find purpose in life when robots do all the work for us?
Why can't America have Israel's welfare state?
Is American aid funding better benefits for Israelis than Americans have at home?
Just say no to prohibition
Consciousness-altering drugs can be both lifesaving medicine and an economic engine, if we stop trying to criminalize them.
America's 250th: Looking backward and forward
America has been divided for 250 years. If we make it to 500, will we be still having the same arguments or will we have outgrown them?
A guided trip into psychedelics
Shelby Hartman and Madison Rachel Margolin map out the burgeoning psychedelic movement.
Wildfire skies: The future is hazy
From fire-hazed skies to flash floods, the planetary climate is changing all around us.
Do we actually want human-centered healthcare?
We should leave the human aspects of healthcare to humans, and let AI handle the rest.
Build a bigger table, not a higher wall
Documentarian Josh Fox wants us to welcome the tired, poor and huddled masses escaping the climate crisis.
Should freethought return to its deist roots?
The first American secularists were deists. Would the freethought movement benefit from emulating their example?
Fighting hustle culture: When rest feels like failure
Do new technologies save labor, or merely increase the unsustainable pressure to be productive all the time?
When will humans marry robots?
How long will it be until we form emotional and even marital bonds with synthetic beings?