Can we bridge the reality gap?
It’s a strange and dangerous time to live in America. At least, it is if you take the word of conservative news outlets like Fox or Breitbart. Of course, it’s tough to take their word for it...
Category: Politics
Why standing up against Nazis matters
Newnan is a small Georgia town with just 38,000 people. I know only two things about Newnan: a few of my friends from college called it home, and I pass it on my way to visit my mother. Newnan...
Auf Wiedersehen to Germany’s Britons
Time was you couldn’t move for Brits in Germany. First in military deployments in the Cold War, young British men came to Germany in the tens of thousands. Then in the late 1970s and early 1980s,...
Why an “Uber for carers” could be a dangerous idea
I am a firm believer in the power of technology to do good for the world. In the earlier days of the web, when you could go on The Hunger Site and click a button to feed somebody who was hungry, I...
#WednesdayWisdom: The case for war in the Middle East
“Is Trump going to bomb Iran now?” Sure, why not. Yes, yes, I can already hear all of you bleeding heart rogue state sympathizer traitors whining about how: “But the Middle East can’t stand...
As long as weed is illegal, the wrong people are criminalised
A friend of mine took part in a medical cannabis trial to test whether it could help with the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. She was taking the legitimate cannabis in the trial and found that it...
Russia intensifies repression against Crimean Tatars
“Are you afraid of what could happen if the authorities find out you spoke to a journalist?” I asked the grieving father as we sat in his kitchen in the Crimean city of Bakhchysarai. “No, I’m...
#WednesdayWisdom: The real truth about the Deep State
The Deep State really screwed me over today. First it was the weird weather — too cold in the shade, too hot in the sun, so that I kept having to take my scarf out of my bag and put it on and then...
Is there a corporate case for health care?
Jonathan Oberlander wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that a Medicare for All healthcare proposal would generate “fierce resistance from conservatives and the business community.”...
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: delete your account?
The thing about companies like Facebook and Google is that data gathering is a feature, not a bug. It’s how they make their living – by offering highly targeted advertising options based on the...