Keen On America

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Keen On America

Blood in the Machine: Brian Merchant on what we can learn from the 19th century Luddites in our digital age of gig work and generative AI

Notes from the invisible underground: Kat Calvin on the 26 million American adults who have no government ID and, thus, in the eyes of the government, don't really exist

How the quest for respect can heal our divided world: Michele Lamont on rebuilding dignity in our age of anxiety , inequality and isolation

Why Justice is Coming to America: Cenk Uygur predicts that progressives are going to take over the country and how we are all going to love it

Confronting Amazon, Google and his own powerful family: John Sargent on his adventures and misadventures as CEO of one of the world's largest publishing companies

What's Your Lego? Bent Flyvbjerg on how to get big things done

Seeing through all the shtick: of parenting Gary John Bishop on how to grow up to become the parent your kids deserve

Is Web3 technology - Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, DAOs, NFTs et al - just the latest Silicon Valley hype? Alex Tapscott separates the signal from the noise on the internet's next economic and cultural frontier

Tyranny of an Ethnocratic Minority: Steven Levitsky on what an increasingly broken American political system has to learn from the democracies of Brazil and Argentina

When the stink became overwhelming: Corban Addison tells the true story of when large-scale farming went on trial in North Carolina

Your Face Belongs to Us: Kashmir Hill on a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it

Eight novels to take to a desert island this Fall: Bethanne Patrick on new fiction about Haiti, Jamestown, 1984, Malaysia and women on the margins of the Vietnam war

On the Awesomeness of Globalization: Keith Teare explains why the next chapter of globalized technology will undermine the economic and political power of the nation-state

The Economic and Moral Case for Good Jobs: Zeynep Ton on why companies need to bring dignity, pay and meaning to everyone's work

How to stand up to a dictator: Maria Ressa on courage, honesty, perseverance and why must all fight for our future

The shocking saga of big media malfeasance rivaling Succession for its sex, lies and betrayals: Rachel Abrams on the Redstone dynastic struggle, former CBS executive Les Moonves and their significance to the Me Too movement

Why AI threatens not just writing, creativity and thinking, but also democracy: Naomi S. Baron on how new tools like Chat GPT are stopping us knowing who we really are as individuals

The Long Life of a Radical Gerontologist: Ken Dychtwald on how to age with purpose

The $100 Trillion Wealth Transfer: Ken Costa explains why the handover of wealth from Boomers to Gen Z must revolutionize capitalism

Why digital transformation isn't about technology: David Rogers on how to rebuild organizations in our age of continuous change

The most brutal and gruesome siege in human history? Prit Buttar on the siege of Leningrad 1941-42

Watch out for those Jewish space lasers: Mike Rothschild on the Rothschilds and 200 years of anti-semitic conspiracy theories

How to direct the power of digital technology into economic and political progress: Simon Johnson on what we can learn from our 1000-year struggle over technology and prosperity to make our age of Generative AI more equitable

On the science of failing well: Amy Edmondson explains why we need to take smart risks which will result in more, rather than fewer, failures

Don't Look Away: Alexander Batthyany on terminal lucidity, the "soul" and our final journey when we cross over the border from life to death

Extremely Socially Online: Taylor Lorenz on the untold story of fame, influence, and power on the internet

How to break free of "equality feminism": Marcie Bianco on the lie of equality and the feminist fight for freedom

Taming the Street then and now: Diana Henriques on the New Deal, FDR's fight to regulate American capitalism and its relevance in Joe Biden's America today

Was Richard Nixon really a Southern Californian paragon of cheerfulness , hard work and decency? Paul Carter's defense of the only US President born and raised in California

The Dirty Secrets of our Material World: Ed Conway on the six physical commodities underpinning the global extractive economy

An Un-Whitewashed Story of America: Michael Harriot on AF History, Black Twitter and how he "discovered" America at 8.00 pm on November 4, 1980

Eight great non-fiction reads for the Fall: LA Times book critic Bethanne Patrick on new books about video-gaming writers, Roman emperors, Rastafarian fathers, Jerusalem murders, American guns and the genealogy of the female body

Why money now is the most valuable commodity in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare explains how cash has become king for both tech investors and entrepreneurs

When fictional characters turn out to be more authentic than real people: Lang Leav on anti Asian racism in Australia and her love of the early internet as a place where she could escape how she looks

How Bill Clinton betrayed progressive ideas and capitulated to the right: Nelson Lichtenstein on the failure of the Clinton presidency and the transformation of American capitalism

Five Elemental Ways of Building a Sustainable Future: Stephen Porder on how five core elements changed earth's past and will shape our future

If you want to understand America, you have to understand basketball: Rich Cohen on the 1987-1988 NBA's "greatest season"

Imagine an AI that customizes a musical soundtrack of our lives: Niclas Molinder on the opportunities and threats that AI offers the creative community

AI as our Guttenberg moment: Moritz Schularick, the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, on the economic significance of today's AI revolution

AI as our Oppenheimer moment: Benedikt Franke, CEO of the Munich Security Conference, on the geo-political significance of today's AI revolution

One year that changed the world: Ludwig Ensthaler on the short but revolutionary history of Generative AI

There will be no stock market on a dead planet: Sandrine Dixson-Decleve on how to transform extractive capitalism into a regenerative model of equitable economic progress

Why truthful stories about nature should have neither beginnings nor endings: Martin Puchner on telling circular environmental stories

Why there is hope in the soil: Jan-Gisbert Schultze on the transformational promise of regenerative agriculture

What, exactly, is circular economics? Martjin Lopes Cardozo on the current state of the circular economy

The Age of the Sustainable City: Ian Goldin on how to make the 21st century city the heart of a new circular economy

Trust and the Tokenization of Value: Rachel O'Dwyer on the future of money in our age of the digital platform

Containing and Controlling AI: Mustafa Suleyman on how to strengthen the nation-state in the coming wave of radical technological disruption

Silicon Valley's Destruction of Reality: Jonathan Taplin on how 4 tech billionaires are selling us a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto

I Must Resist: Michael G. Long celebrates the political and personal bravery of Bayard Ruskin on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington