Category: Human Rights
DoorDash to Acquire Instacart – Bad Deal for Consumers
DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion ($65 per share). The companies plan to keep separate brands and apps until…
The Iran War Dividend: Why Should Oil Companies Keep It All?
When war drives up energy prices, consumers pay more and oil producers can earn extraordinary profits. Should some of that…
When Everything You Do Becomes Suspicious
We are becoming a society in which algorithms know more about our behavior than we do—and increasingly have the power…
When Even the Cardboard Is Worthless: Hong Kong’s Elderly Poor
The collapse in earnings from collecting wastepaper exposes a larger problem in one of the world’s wealthiest cities: how to…
France Is Burning Again. Is This Another May 1968?
Nearly six decades after students brought France to the brink of political upheaval, a new generation is taking to the…
Frankenstein and AI: We May Be Afraid of the Wrong Monster
More than 200 years ago, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein—one of the most enduring cautionary tales in literature. Today, as artificial…
I Asked AI to Write Laws for AI and This Is What I Got
Addressing the global concern that AI will wipe out humanity in the next decade or so I asked three AIs…
We’ve Almost Destroyed the Culture of Childhood
“The most important function of the culture of childhood is to teach children how to get along with peers. Children…
The Student as Consumer
Campus intolerance is frequently blamed on radical political ideology, but its deeper cause is structural: the transformation of students into…