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Giving to charity is great, not just for the recipients but for the givers, too. But it can be intimidating to know how to pick the best charity when...
The US has a lot of layers of government. Some would say too many. I would say too many. Here in Washington, DC, we mercifully only have a city...
The year is 1956. You’re a researcher working at International Business Machines, the world’s leading tabulating machine company, which has...
The other day, economist Tyler Cowen made an offhand observation that took me aback a bit: that the French, today, enjoy “the longest financed...
We all know that it’s better to save five people’s lives than to save only one. But in 1977, one philosopher dared to argue…maybe it isn’t?...
Two of the smartest people I follow in the AI world recently sat down to check in on how the field is going. One was François Chollet, creator of the...
It sometimes seems like the basic income wars will never go away. My first Vox piece on the idea of a government-provided guaranteed income came in...
Whatever else can be said about the second Trump administration, it is always teaching me about parts of the Constitution I had forgotten were even in...
Last summer, the Congressional Budget Office released a report under the unassuming name “Budgetary Effects of Policies That Would Increase...
Of all the many famous Steve Jobs stories that tech industry folks like to share, perhaps the single most famous is his 1983 pitch to then-Pepsi...
Late on Monday night, July 14, 2025, the ninth richest man in the world broke some momentous news: The US government would allow him, Nvidia CEO...
To hear many smart AI observers tell it, the day of Wednesday, June 25, 2025, represented the moment when Congress started to take the possibility of...
Below is a graph showing a trend that exploded during the 2020s: What is this depicting? Compute use for AI? Crispr gene edits per year? No, this is...
I’m writing this on a plane back to Washington, DC, from a conference in the Bay Area, the land of tomorrow. While the conference wasn’t about AI,...
To pass a law in the United States, you need to jump through a lot of hurdles. A bill has to first clear a committee in the House or Senate. (In the...
Politics, you will notice, has gotten extremely weird. To some degree, of course, this is Donald Trump’s fault. No other president has seen the...
If the year 2025 has had a message for developing countries, it’s this: “You’re on your own.” Most notably, the Trump administration began...
Being able to predict the future seems nice. I would’ve liked to know that my S&P 500 index funds would peak in mid-February and then fall off a...
In January 2024, I wrote a big piece on a relatively new, and very promising, approach to fighting respiratory diseases like Covid, tuberculosis, and...
“Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country,” President Donald Trump promised on “Liberation Day,” as he announced tariffs...
The day this article goes up, April 2, has been pegged by President Donald Trump as “Liberation Day”: the day his suite of tariffs will go into...
If, on January 19, 2025, a day before Donald Trump’s inauguration, you had asked foreign aid experts, “does the US Agency for International...
I have, like I suspect many readers, been in quite a bad mood for the last two months. My go-to joke explaining why — which I feel like should land...
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