Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Remember, these industry leaders are doing what they do for money—and lots of it. They are choosing to endanger the property and lives of others for personal profit. If they mess up, they should be forced to pay a very high price.
Unlike previous technological revolutions, AI has the potential to reshape economies, education, science, healthcare, communication, and political decision-making.
Without Prop. 40 revenues, Californians could face hospital closures, job losses, increased food insecurity, and state budget cuts to public schools, yet tech billionaires are pouring millions into opposing the wealth tax.
AI risk represents the apex of growth mania, where a few tech elites gamble with humanity’s future.
Whatever else AI may do, its data centers will consume vast amounts of energy and keep driving fossil-fuel emissions for years to come, lending us humans a distinct helping hand in overheating this planet
The passage of New York’s statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country.
One city’s success in stopping a data center grew into a regional movement that’s notching wins across the San Gabriel Valley.
From climate disasters to housing shortages, the system finds new ways to extract value from crisis. In this essay, author Craig Collins argues that modern capitalism is no longer built to expand prosperity, but to monetize collapse.
Beyond living standards, economic growth has shaped how societies cope with shocks and distribute gains. As growth weakens, these less visible functions may prove just as consequential as its economic effects.
As extreme inequality worsens and AI concentrates wealth into the hands of a small elite, insisting that the wealth generated by our collective inheritance be shared with all its rightful beneficiaries is not so much a political position as a moral imperative.
As the race to build data centers across the United States accelerates, local governments worry that the tech industry mantra of “move fast and break things” puts their communities at risk of being broken, and Americans are responding to this moment with the power of their voices and votes.
As AI drives a boom in massive, power-hungry data centers, tech companies are targeting small, vulnerable communities for sprawling “hyperscale” complexes. In Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County, the tiny borough of Archbald, facing five proposed facilities, has become a flashpoint in a growing nationwide backlash over who pays the price for the digital future.
