Reading Time: 7 minutes On Thursday, February 22, Vice Media CEO Bruce Dixon announced hundreds of layoffs and a decision to no longer publish content on Vice.com. The decision came after the company was rescued from bankruptcy last year by an investment firm with a strong stake in private equity, and in the wake of a terrible month for […]
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Posted inPolitics
The election US voters won’t get to have
Reading Time: 10 minutes On Tuesday, January 23, the quadruply indicted former president Donald Trump won a New Hampshire primary against Nikki Haley, the last alternative Republican presidential candidate standing after a month of contests that saw Ron DeSantis end his run on Sunday, and Vivek Ramaswamy the week prior. DeSantis immediately endorsed Trump over the “warmed over corporatism” […]
Posted inNews
What’s behind the migrant crises in Canada, the UK, and Texas?
Reading Time: 9 minutes Migrant crises in three Western states highlight the complexity of the problem, and how ill-prepared our governments are to advance policies that will meaningfully reduce pressures at home and abroad.
Posted inTechnology
Is false information our top global risk in 2024?
Reading Time: 6 minutes If we can’t manage our mis- and disinformation crisis better, how can we ever hope to tackle our environmental, political, and economic issues well?
Posted inCommunity
Yes In My Back Yard: The mindset to tackle homelessness
Reading Time: 4 minutes America’s housing shortage is a Prisoner’s Dilemma problem. We need a lot of new housing, but no one wants it built in their community.
Posted inHistory
Data support universal basic income. When will that translate into better policy?
Reading Time: 13 minutes We have a wealth of data that dismisses tired, racialized stereotypes about welfare recipients. What will it take to translate Universal Basic Income research into policy?
Posted inClimate Crisis
COP28’s climate cop-out, and what comes next
Reading Time: 11 minutes Ignore the media claims of a “landmark” climate deal. COP28 failed to produce outcomes in word or in action or in funding that would get the world back on track for meeting key climate targets. Now what?
Posted inCulture
How to be happy with less: A minimalist holiday manifesto
Reading Time: 5 minutes Every possession is a burden, and consumerism is a trap that weighs us down and keeps us chasing an unreachable goal. This holiday season, consider giving minimalism a try.
Posted inClimate Crisis
Saudi Arabia surprises no one with its oil plans
Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s the sort of story you couldn’t get past a fiction editor as “realistic”, but which is nonetheless par for the course in our relentlessly self-destructive world: Ahead of COP28, the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference to be held from November 30 to December 12 in the United Arab Emirates, an undercover investigation has confirmed […]
Posted inWar and Peace
Wartime hostages and armchair analysts
Reading Time: 14 minutes As the world awaits the Israel-Hamas hostage deal and temporary ceasefire, it bears remembering how complex political and wartime kidnappings always are.