At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
Now that there’s no longer any way to treat my cancer, I’ve been reflecting on what I want others to know about life and death, says Elliot Dallen
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Artificial Intelligence Is the Hope 2020 Needs
Your AI bartender will serve you now. Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images Europe Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images Europe This year is likely to be…
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The Worst Is Yet to Come
The coronavirus and our disastrous national response to it has smashed optimists like me in the head.
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Opinion | This Is the One Thing That Might Save the World From Financial Collapse
Amid everything else, there’s a deeper economic crisis underway.
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Women Dominated the Decade
She wasn’t the only woman who had a great decade. Photographer: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North America Photographer: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North…
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Opinion | The Happy, Healthy Capitalists of Switzerland
Forget Scandinavia. Switzerland is richer and yet has a surprisingly equal wealth distribution.
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How Bowling Alleys Made a Comeback
Bowling’s cool again. Just ask Kim. Photographer: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Photographer: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images In the late 1970s, just over 9 million…
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Opinion | Trump Has Disqualified Himself From Running in 2020
The president’s brazen attempt at cheating has taken “decide it at the ballot box” off the menu. Impeachment is imperative.
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Opinion | When the Internet Chases You From Your Home
How online mobs harassed the targets of Gamergate, Christine Blasey Ford and me.
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10 tips for reviewing code you don’t like
Here are 10 tips to keep in mind when reviewing code submissions that, for whatever reason, you (as a project maintainer) do not like.
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In an astonishing turn, George Soros and Charles Koch team up to end US ‘forever war’ policy - The Boston Globe
In one of the most remarkable partnerships in modern American political history, the leftist financier Soros and the conservative Charles Koch are uniting to revive the fading vision of a peaceable United States.
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China’s Social Credit System Is More Kafka Than Orwell
What if you built a terrifying 21st century surveillance-and-control system and no one cared? That’s what appears to be happening with China’s social-credit…
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No sweet spot for Singapore in US-China tensions
Singapore will come under special scrutiny, as an ethnic Chinese majority society with strong ties to both.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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The Aliens Among Us
This one is not flying and has been identified. Photographer: Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images For the…
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Opinion | The Power of Petty Personal Rage
Straw police, hamburger paranoia and the state of the right.
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Opinion | Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office
Hard work and discipline help girls outperform boys in class, but that advantage disappears in the work force. Is school the problem?
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Kamala Harris’s Disappointing Economics
Does she know Arnold Kling? Photographer: Al Drago/Getty Images North America Photographer: Al Drago/Getty Images North America One of the worst tendencies in…
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The U.S.-China Cold War Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better
Goodbye to good relations. Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images We are in the midst of a new Cold War ,…
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What Advocates of Legalizing Pot Don’t Want You to Know
The wave toward legalization ignores the serious health risks of marijuana.
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What Straight-A Students Get Wrong
If you always succeed in school, you’re not setting yourself up for success in life.
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Expect America and Europe to Matter Less in 2019
China is paving the road to the future. Photographer: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images AsiaPac Photographer: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images AsiaPac As 2018 comes to a…
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Trump’s Appointment of the Acting Attorney General Is Unconstitutional
The president is evading the requirement to seek the Senate’s advice and consent for the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and the person who will oversee the Mueller investigation.
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Opinion | The New Socialists
Why the pitch from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders resonates in 2018.
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Opinion | What Should Congress Ask Zuckerberg?
Lawmakers yelling at Mark Zuckerberg will look like progress but amount to nothing.
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Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?
Social disconnection is a serious matter. But let’s not whip up a panic.
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