Workplace tensions and resentment will rise if top performers benefit more than everyone else from artificial-intelligence tools. But there are things companies can do to level the playing field. Quick Summary Artificial intelligence will likely widen the performance gap between top-performing employees and average employees, contrary to conventional wisdom. Superstars leverage their in-depth knowledge and good work habits to gain more value from AI, while average performers

Parents aren’t sure how to steer their teens in the face of AI; ‘There’s a panic’

Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?

One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.

Most of us have to work, but life is far too short to have so much of it dominated by unhappiness or discontent. So I believe that everyone needs — and deserves — to be happy at work.

Research shows that social connection improves health and well-being. The challenge of isolation intensifies with age.

Investment in AI ignites a fire under U.S. economy, but technology hasn’t yet fulfilled promise of making humans work more efficiently Quick Summary AI’s economic impact stems mainly from increased investment and a stock-market rally, not substantial worker-productivity boosts. Economists are divided on AI’s current productivity impact; some note tech-sector gains, others find no strong link outside of tech. Productivity gains are coming, say economists. New technologies just

Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis.

“What’s happening now has, in fact, been happening since the very invention of language and writing.”

DM So, it seems by combining our last conversation (re: "non-local consciousness," and the role GABA plays in consciousness "restraint" during life), ..and the content of our other related past conversations, ... we may have arrived at plausible, even logical, hypothesis: That is, the end of life (aka: physical death) may be but a Vanishing Point "Portal" for consciousness to enter a new dimension(s?) of Pantakinesis™ . I do realize we've little or no solid empirical or evid

The outcome of these trends has huge implications for workers, wealth and the future of America’s economy.

Apollo Quiboloy — according to his followers — is the appointed son of God. He’s also at the center of a criminal empire, an explosive rift in the government of the Philippines, and a shift in the makeup of global Christianity. Excerpt: " His defiance echoed a familiar script in the modern Charismatic Christian playbook: a populist, right-wing persecution complex, where powerful religious leaders take on Jesus’ oppression as their own. Casting themselves as victims of a hosti

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

From Jane Austen to Rosa Parks, from Joan Didion to Stacey Abrams, saying no has been the key to female self-respect and political empowerment. Excerpt: ' “If you could go back to your younger self—say, six years after you’d graduated from high school—what would you ask?” I thought about it for a second and then said, “I’m not so sure I’d ask my younger self anything, but here’s what I’d tell her: that she needs to remember to listen more carefully to the voice inside her hea

.... a theoretical answer to why some work is of value to humankind, whilst other activity does nothing more than generate heat that contributes to entropy, but adds no real value to life. The perverse fact is that in our society, the former is undervalued, and the latter is massively overvalued because what we show is that the financial services sector is a work of no value, which only succeeds in destabilising society.  Excerpt : "There is a fundamental distinction that we

The Nobel Prize was awarded to economists Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, who study the effects of creative destruction and innovation on growth.

Americans’ mental health is suffering and it’s not just due to stressful news feeds or not getting enough steps in. Toxic work environments are playing a large role in an epidemic of worsening mental health.  According to Monster’s newly released 2025 Mental Health in the Workplace survey of 1,100 workers, 80% of respondents described their workplace environment as toxic. The alarming statistic is an increase from 67% just a year ago.

Going along with an untruth for fear of disagreeing with others is a form of self-betrayal that will make you miserable. Excerpt: "What had kept the U.S.S.R. population in chains for so long was what the author and scientist Todd Rose has termed a “collective illusion,” precisely this phenomenon of people holding an opinion that is widely shared but that they believe is theirs alone—thus staying silent from fear of persecution or rejection."

Looking backwards doesn’t have to feel like standing still. Excerpt: "Regret, my colleague Julie Beck wrote in 2016, is “the emotional price we pay for free will.” If we were just pawns tossed around on the chessboard of life, she explains, there’d be nothing to regret. Most of us would probably take that trade-off: Better to make mistakes than to have no control at all. But even so, none of us enjoys the experience of regret. Looking backward can be an act of desperate refu

The release of the remaining October 7 captives shows that hope can survive even in the darkest hole.