In his book The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump shares the secrets of successful negotiations. In his view, negotiations require setting ambitious goals and persistently pushing one’s own terms. After a ...

Will AI Rob Us of the Full Human Experience ...

Passage to a Better World - The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein; Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon ...

Recent shifts in US foreign policy are placing the Western Balkans in a difficult position. While internal issues are challenging a delicate peace, outside forces are only exacerbating these issues.

General purpose computing freedom fighter Cory Doctorow argues that US President Donald Trump might be inadvertently eroding Big Tech’s moat against genuine innovation, security research, privacy, ...

Over several decades, the judiciary has shifted from a neutral arbiter to the most influential and least accountable branch ...

An eccentric genius arrives in the United States from a land far away and becomes both extremely wealthy and hugely divisive.

The reactionary theorists in power in the United States identify themselves with a movement dubbed “the Dark Enlightenment”, ...

We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves movements ...

The rise of AI follows a fundamentally different competitive logic than earlier technological revolutions. With massive ...

Scale Is Not Enough The third area where AI departs from previous tech revolutions is in the weakness and fragility of network effects. Legacy tech platforms benefited from self-reinforcing growth.

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...