The Economics of Living at the Top of the World
By Randall Hyman Foreign Affairs Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, which sits some 700 miles from the North Pole, is barren when it comes to people but abundant in coal. For decades, […]
Monthly Archives: April 2016
The Future of Legal Services for the Poor
By Matthew Van Meter Longreads The Bronx Defenders was born in 1997 from Robin Steinberg’s belief that the public-defender system was failing the poor people it represented. In principle, public […]
The Battle for Land Rights in the American West
By Christopher Solomon Outside The American West is our handsome conundrum—too beautiful to use, too useful to be left alone, as a Colorado journalist once put it. In the past, […]
Using Unnatural Selection to Save Coral Reefs
By Elizabeth Kolbert The New Yorker In 2013, a foundation run by Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen announced a contest called the Ocean Challenge. Researchers were asked for plans to counter […]
The Secret Rules of the Internet
By Catherine Buni & Soraya Chemaly The Verge Today, YouTube’s billion-plus users upload 400 hours of video every minute. Every hour, Instagram users generate 146 million “likes” and Twitter users send […]
Who Will Protect us From Space Pirates?
By David Axe The Daily Beast With trillions of dollars worth of minerals lying just under the moon’s surface or spinning around the solar system inside asteroids, space mining is […]
More Transgender Visibility, More Anti-Transgender Legislation
By Jos Truitt The Nation On Tuesday, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard vetoed a bill that would have amounted to legislative bullying of transgender young people. House Bill 1008, which […]
The Importance of Maintenance Alongside Innovation
By Lee Vinsel & Andrew Russell Aeon Evidence has emerged that regions of intense innovation also have systemic problems with inequality. In 2013, protests erupted in San Francisco over the […]
How Hard are Sanctions Hitting Russia?
By Lilia Shevtsova The American Interest The Western sanctions regime against Russia has confirmed that the post-Cold War and post-Communist stage of the world’s history, with all its hopes and […]
Why Wages have Stagnated and their Impact on the American Dream
By Dwyer Gunn Pacific Standard If there’s one thing that the candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have made clear, it’s that people in America are not happy with […]
