Many technologies can be used in both healthy and unhealthy ways. You can indulge in food to the point of obesity, or even make it the subject of anxiety. Media can keep us informed, but it can also steal our focus and drain our energy, especially social media. AI can help students learn, or it can help them avoid learning. Technology itself has no agency to choose between these paths; we do.

The U.S. is cracking down freedom of speech with a new viciousness, but the First Amendment won’t go down without a fight.

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The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology. Excerpt: "Comparing the words and deeds of 1775 with those of 1776 shows a profound shift in sentiment among the American people. Patriots had been asserting and, in some cases, fighting for their rights as British subjects since the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765, which resulted from Parliament imposing taxes on unrepresented colonists. Parliament refused to back down from the bedrock principle, e

Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

When the "Greatest Generation" returned home from World War II, many veterans had suffered psychic wounds that were not diagnosed or understood at the time to be PTSD. For his new book, "The Wounded Generation," historian David Nasaw researched the experiences of WWII veterans – from suffering survivor's guilt, to receiving electro-shock therapy treatments – that give insights into the emotional traumas facing veterans of all wars. To all military veterans, we thank you!

The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.

In 1576 a theater rose in a rough-and-tumble London neighborhood. William Shakespeare would get his professional start among its players.

Life can feel like a movie where the only actor is you. Choose your cast from the parts of yourself that serve the story you truly want to tell.

Here’s how to switch from trying to thriving in the age of the ‘infinite workday.’

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State and city elections are now heavily intertwined with what happens in Washington.

The decline of criticism might explain the sense that our culture is stagnating. How can we bring it back?

From the Protestant work ethic to ‘rage quitting,’ American attitudes about their work are driven by its promise of prosperity—and its precarious nature

DM With hot apple cider in hand I ask, what are optimal terms to define a functional "A.I.<>human<> organization relationship" (both personal and collectively) within organizational work dynamics; and what might the designs thereof include, or entail, for optimal relational efficacy and risks mitigation? Keep in mind: organizations and human have very different parameters as to "optimal"and "efficacy;" and IMPO from a moral and pragmatic POV, "work should fit well into life,"

The practice of ‘labor hoarding’—holding on to employees for fear of not being able to get them back later—has reached its end

Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization

Chapter 1: In challenging British rule, Thomas Jefferson would face the contradiction between enslavement and “all men are created equal.”

In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her Trump-voting hometown to find out how America got so divided.