Tech companies are increasingly expanding into food and agriculture, bringing with them a very specific brand of solutions culture. The Silicon Valley ethos is built upon the belief that one big idea ...

Three books reckon with technological complexity and the wicked problems it creates. The philosopher Karl Popper once argued that there are two kinds of problems in the world: clock problems and cloud ...

WASHINGTON, USA - AUGUST 17: (L-R) Professor Halil Berktay, Burhanettin Duran, Kilic Kanat, Shadi Hamid, and Kadir Ustun attend in a panel called "The July 15 Failed Coup Attempt: Implications for U.S ...

Judith Enck, whose new book "The Problem with Plastic" confronts one of the defining environmental issues of our time. Enck brings decades of experience - from her work at the EPA to her leadership of ...

It’s a stressful time to be a psychiatrist in America. Not a day seems to go by without a panicked patient or friend asking me how to stay grounded in the face of the political chaos that has suddenly ...

I n 1903 George Bernard Shaw wrote Man and Superman, a comedy of manners featuring the character Jack Tanner — political firebrand, descendent of Don Juan, and author of The Revolutionist’s Handbook ...

A journalist and a farmer visit three fields with different styles of cultivation — conventional, organic and no-till — to bury cotton underwear in each. Though this sounds like the beginning of a bad ...

I felt tremendous shame,” Ta-Nehisi Coates confessed in November at a pro-Palestinian event called “But We Must Speak.” His shame, he told a rapt crowd near Columbia University, had arisen during a ...

Scam books have plagued Amazon for years. The newest reported scam is a book listing for Luis Elizondo’s ‘Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs.’ The fake posting had the same cover, but a ...

China’S giant economy faces an equally giant crisis of confidence—and a growing deficit of accurate information is only making things worse. Even as the country wrestles with a property crash, the ...