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Ambitopia: How to face an uncertain future
The future won't be utopian or dystopian, but both at the same time.
The fertility freeze: Why the birth rate is falling
Fewer women are choosing to have kids, and the reasons should be obvious.
Negativland and me: Why we fall for hoaxes
Public gullibility was a problem in the 1980s when I was caught up in a famous media hoax. It’s worse today.
Raise a glass to America's immigrant winemakers
ICE raids endanger a thriving industry and a true American-dream success story.
63 words that could silence the courts: How a tiny clause in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” threatens American democracy
Authority without enforcement is theater dressed as law.
When it’s hell on the surface, it’s time to go deep
The perspective is out there.
Severance and the divided American self
The analogy to our societal fracture cuts to the bone.
Unchecked and unbalanced: The Constitution’s Achilles heel
An unforeseen partisan flaw threatens America's secular democracy.
The winds of an evolutionary mismatch
This is not the world we were meant for. That fact hurts some more than others.
The benefit of disconnecting
We have more information than ever. Is it helping?
The future of murder
A 'guided missile for the poor' is changing the face of targeted killing.
Three visions of the year 3000
A quick look at the long run.