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Big money to counter big AI
A new coalition of 10 major givers, including the Omidyar Network and Ford Foundation, are investing $500 million in an effort to ensure Americans have a say in how artificial intelligence impacts them.
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Oct 15, 20251 min read
Should you be a leader?
Here’s how to tell if management is right for you—and you for it.
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Oct 15, 20251 min read
Can AI Help Us See Beyond Differences to Find Common Ground?
Wharton visiting scholar Cornelia Walther explains how AI can help business leaders translate different mindsets and communicate more effectively.
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Oct 15, 20251 min read
Pondering the next 25 years of China (and authoritarian systems powered by AI)
My recent trip to China shows the incredible material progress for its citizens and contributions to the world's clean energy future, but also the dangers of their authoritarian system in The AI Age
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Oct 15, 20251 min read
THE U.S. NEEDS A MASS MOVEMENT—NOW
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
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Oct 15, 20251 min read
THE BEACON OF DEMOCRACY GOES DARK
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore. Related
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Oct 15, 20251 min read
Pondering today's likelihood of nuclear annihilation
The risk of a nuclear weapon being used is as high today as any time in modern history. We’re living in an age of disinformation and misinformation as tensions escalate and wars rage in regions with nuclear weapons. For the first time in 40 years, the number of nuclear weapons in the world is expected to go up More about the movie
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Oct 15, 20251 min read
The Underrated Power of ‘Glue Employees’ Who Hold Everything Together
Successful teams aren’t necessarily about star talent, but more often depend on the quiet leaders who hold organizations together
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Oct 14, 20251 min read
Why AI Will Widen the Gap Between Superstars and Everybody Else
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
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Oct 14, 20251 min read
THE INSURRECTION PROBLEM
Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?
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Oct 14, 20251 min read
WHY DID BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S SON REMAIN LOYAL TO THE BRITISH?
One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.
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Oct 14, 20251 min read
The happiest, most successful employees have 6 things in common, says CEO who’s interviewed 30,000 people
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.
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Oct 14, 20251 min read
Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name Above All Names, Inc.
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
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Oct 13, 20251 min read
HOW NATIVE NATIONS SHAPED THE U.S. REVOLUTION
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
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Oct 13, 20251 min read
How About Never?
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
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Oct 13, 20251 min read
Nobel economics prize recognizes creative destruction in innovation, growth
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.
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Oct 13, 20251 min read
80% of workplaces relationally toxic?
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.
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Oct 13, 20251 min read
The Happiness of Choosing to Walk Alone
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."
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Oct 13, 20251 min read
A Management Anti-Fad That Will Last Forever
The ultimate advice for managers could be just to be human.
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Oct 12, 20251 min read
THE LINCOLN WAY
How he used America’s past to rescue its future
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Oct 11, 20251 min read
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