When the Hedge Is the Point: Incentives Behind Private Geoengineering Bets
If you can model the profit, you can ignore the fallout
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The Loyalty Game: Hotel Chains, “Exclusive” Perks, and the Real Rules of Play
Direct bookings, dynamic pricing, and the calculated generosity of the hotel industry’s loyalty machine.
Have We Been Treating Exhaustion and Calling It ADHD?
What would change if we listened more closely to tired kids?
Who Gets to Define Intimacy When We Outsource It to AI?
On risk, profit, and why digital companionship feels safer—until it isn’t.
OpenAI’s New “Head of Preparedness” Is Not The Story
When a company hires someone to predict harms after they’ve already landed in court, you’re not watching foresight. You’re watching insurance.
Bodies in Progress: Ozempic and the Private Rewriting of Marriage
When medicines promise transformation, who picks up the pieces at home?
Heated Rivalry Stirs the Ice: When Queer Joy Outscores Hockey’s Old School PR
A queer romance climbs to #1 among hockey’s silent codes—and the crowd roars back.
The Gift and the Ground Beneath It
A few years ago, a small literacy nonprofit down the road from my school received an email the director assumed was a scam. It came from an intermediary she’d never heard of, asking for a quick call about a “significant” gift, and she almost deleted it — the sort of
How the AI Boom Is Building Fortunes—And What That Reveals About Power
A few benefit big from AI hype, while most watch from the sidelines.
Growth Without Jobs: The Structural Contradiction in Today’s Economy
Why a swelling GDP is not the same thing as a healthy labor market—and why leaders can’t afford to ignore the gap.
Big Food's Grocery Bill Scare: Protecting Wallets or Hiding Ingredients?
RFK Jr. wants labels on the junk. Food giants cry price hikes. Who's really paying?
Trump’s Offshore Wind Pause Isn’t About Whales. It’s About Power.
When data centers are begging for megawatts, freezing turbines is not a policy—it’s a message.
Who Owns the AI Rulebook Now?
If you want to understand how a system actually works, pay attention to who gets to say no. That's where the real power lies.
Trump's new executive order on AI is really about shifting who gets to say no. On the surface it claims to prevent
AI Isn’t Delusional. We Are.
Those outputs are, frankly, delusional.
That’s the phrase a coalition of U.S. state attorneys general just lobbed at Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and the usual AI suspects. In a warning letter reported by TechCrunch and echoed by outlets like Computerworld and the Times of India, they say chatbots