Humans can be sued — computers can’t. — With the meteoric rise of ChatGPT and other generative artificial neural networks, social media has filled with dire warnings of the future to come. …

Why it haunts me — and why I do it anyways — I am a tenant organizer. When people ask what that means, I always tell the big stories. I talk about the woman who lost a child, or her husband who developed cancer, from a mold-infested apartment. I talk about the single mother who lived in a burnt out apartment for…

Elections are not enough — Americans are living through a series of escalating crises. The planet is warming as geopolitical tensions grow. The global economy is teetering. …

When the truth is inconvenient, create your own! — On September 14th, a plane full of Venezuelan migrants landed in Martha’s Vineyard. By all accounts, the community there was not expecting their arrival and rushed to respond. But that is where the accounts begin to differ. …

It is 2022 — why is public policy still based in guesswork? — Very broadly, political debates can be sorted into two categories: What should the world be like? How do we make it that way? Arguments of the first type are intractable. No amount of science or data will tell us which rights we have. Science may tell us that people are…

Winning progress in the face of conservatism. — I was in high school when gay marriage was legalized by the Supreme Court. When the decision came down — complete with a rainbow-colored Whitehouse and media fanfare — it felt like a confirmation of the story I had been told my entire life: progress is inevitable. Young and unengaged…

Calls for civil protest will destroy our future — This is an open letter written in response to this article published by the WaPo editorial board. Hello, I am emailing you in response to the recently published opinion by the editorial board calling for an end to protests at the homes of SC justices. I will do my best…

While conservatives claim to fear for kids, they adopt policies, elect leaders, and foster cultures dedicated to child abuse. — In the last weeks the anti-trans bigotry, panic, and legislation that has been brewing for years has crescendoed not only with the very public and widespread slandering of trans people as threats to children, but the return to America’s long history of brutal homophobia.

A thought experiment. — Today, income and wealth inequality are at their highest levels in at least 50 years, with almost half of all income in the United States going to just 10% of the population. In the last two years, Covid-19 has exasperated this inequality as even the IMF has acknowledged: “The severe…