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Stop Looking for Your Forever Home

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My house is extremely ugly. It looks like someone built an evangelical mega-church in a residential...
My house is extremely ugly. It looks like someone built an evangelical mega-church in a residential neighborhood and then tried to turn it into a single-family home by putting in cheap windows and scallop vinyl shingles.If you don’t believe me that it’s ugly, here is proof: In one of the hottest housing markets in r...
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America's Young Farmers Are Burning Out. I Quit, Too

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In 2023, Scott Chang-Fleeman—a young farmer like me—put down his shovel. A post on his Instagram...
In 2023, Scott Chang-Fleeman—a young farmer like me—put down his shovel. A post on his Instagram read, “Shao Shan Farm, in its current form, is going on indefinite hiatus.” From the outside, the burgeoning farm had the makeup of one that could stand the test of time. In reality, his experience of farm ownership was ...
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Google Contract Shows Deal with Israel Defense Ministry

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Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the tech giant has...
Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the tech giant has negotiated deepening its partnership during Israel’s war in Gaza, a company document viewed by TIME shows.The Israeli Ministry of Defense, according to the document, has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secu...
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Google Workers Revolt over $1.2B Contract with Israel

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In midtown Manhattan on March 4, Google’s managing director for Israel, Barak Regev, was addressing a...
In midtown Manhattan on March 4, Google’s managing director for Israel, Barak Regev, was addressing a conference promoting the Israeli tech industry when a member of the audience stood up in protest. “I am a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveill...
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The Unification Church Infiltrated Japan's Govt, Now Sets Sights on the US

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It was 11.29 a.m. beneath pewter skies in Japan’s southern city of Nara when Shinzo Abe...
It was 11.29 a.m. beneath pewter skies in Japan’s southern city of Nara when Shinzo Abe was handed the microphone. The nation’s former prime minister, wearing a navy blue jacket and crisp white shirt, stepped atop the small, red dias outside Yamato-Saidaiji railway station to muted applause. Some 15 meters away stoo...
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Understanding Childhood Trauma Can Help Us Be More Resilient

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In 2022, the World Health Organization estimated that 1 billion children were maltreated each year around...
In 2022, the World Health Organization estimated that 1 billion children were maltreated each year around the globe. Maltreatment such as neglect and abuse are types of adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs. But they often say little about how children respond, which can either be traumatic or resilient. Now, revol...
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We're Focusing on the Wrong Kind of AI Apocalypse

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Conversations about the future of AI are too apocalyptic. Or rather, they focus on the wrong...
Conversations about the future of AI are too apocalyptic. Or rather, they focus on the wrong kind of apocalypse.There is considerable concern of the future of AI, especially as a number of prominent computer scientists have raised, the risks of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—an AI smarter than a human being. ...
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AI Poses Extinction-Level Risk, State-Funded Report Says

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The U.S. government must move “quickly and decisively” to avert substantial national security risks stemming from...
The U.S. government must move “quickly and decisively” to avert substantial national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence (AI) which could, in the worst case, cause an “extinction-level threat to the human species,” says a report commissioned by the U.S. government published on Monday.“Current fronti...
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Tesla to face nearly 6k black workers in factory racism lawsuit

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Silicon Valley Has a Harvard Problem

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In 1976, Frank Collin, an ambitious leader in the small but resilient Nazi party of the...
In 1976, Frank Collin, an ambitious leader in the small but resilient Nazi party of the United States, planned a march in Skokie, Illinois—an attempt to raise the profile of his organization and build support for his cause. The town, many of whose residents were Jewish and had lived through the war, vehemently oppos...
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A Texas Town's Misery Underscores the Impact of Bitcoin Mines Across the U.S.

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Every night, the nurse anesthetist Cheryl Shadden lies awake in her home in Granbury, Texas, listening...
Every night, the nurse anesthetist Cheryl Shadden lies awake in her home in Granbury, Texas, listening to a nonstop roar. “It’s like sitting on the runway of an airport where jets are taking off, one after another,” she says. “You can't even walk out on your back patio and speak to somebody five feet away and have t...
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The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be on the Verge of Collapse

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A decade ago, someone knocking on your door to sell you solar panels would have been...
A decade ago, someone knocking on your door to sell you solar panels would have been selling you solar panels. Now, they are probably selling you a financial product—likely a lease or a loan. Mary Ann Jones, 83, didn’t realize this had happened to her until she received a call last year from GoodLeap, a financial te...
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Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy

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There is something surprising in the way Western democracies have reacted to events in Israel since...
There is something surprising in the way Western democracies have reacted to events in Israel since the start of the military operation in Gaza. I call it the end of hypocrisy. Take President Joe Biden. On two occasions he has publicly said that Israel is conducting “indiscriminate bombings” in Gaza, a war crime und...
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More Than Half of the World Will Be Obese by 2035, Report Says

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Obesity has often been thought of as a problem of the developed world, with wealthy countries...
Obesity has often been thought of as a problem of the developed world, with wealthy countries eating themselves into a state of ill-health with an abundance of ultraprocessed foods, and poorer ones more often suffering from food insecurity. But that’s no longer true. According to a March report from the World Obesit...
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20 years later, the Y2K bug seems like a joke–because some took it seriously

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In the final hours of Dec. 31, 1999, John Koskinen boarded an airplane bound for New...
In the final hours of Dec. 31, 1999, John Koskinen boarded an airplane bound for New York City. He was accompanied by a handful of reporters but few other passengers, among them a tuxedo-clad reveler who was troubled to learn that, going by the Greenwich Mean Time clock used by airlines, he too would enter the 20th ...
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