I didn’t plan to be an author. What I planned, what I was taught to plan, was to be quiet. Being quiet is the survival training most of us receive early in life. We learn not to make waves, not to draw attention, and not to say things that might make others uncomfortable. Quiet is praised as maturity, humility, and politeness. It brings acceptance and safety, or at least the promise of safety. So, for much of my life, I stayed quiet and buried myself in books…
We talk about the future as if it is a place we are all traveling toward together. Artificial intelligence will transform work. Automation will eliminate jobs. Data centers will spread across the country. Cities will become smarter. Cars will drive themselves. Algorithms will know more about us. Climate change will reshape where and how we live. Robots will become part of everyday life. Some of… Read more: The Future Is Not Inevitable. Who Decides What Comes Next?
There was a time when Americans openly argued about whether their country was becoming an empire. They did not always hide the argument behind phrases like “global leadership,” “strategic interests,” “national security,” or “maintaining international order.” They used the word imperialism. Senators debated it. Newspapers argued about it. Political organizations formed around opposing it. Writers, labor leaders, business leaders, socialists, clergy members, academics, and ordinary… Read more: What Happened to the Anti-Imperialists? Part One: America Once Had an Anti-Imperialist Movement
Paolo Zampolli has one of those biographies that sounds as if several different people’s résumés were accidentally combined. He has been a modeling agent, New York socialite, real-estate dealmaker, friend of Donald and Melania Trump, Caribbean diplomat, United Nations fixture, environmental advocate and business associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Now he is also a presidential envoy. For years, Zampolli was mostly a supporting character in other… Read more: Paolo Zampolli: From Model Agent to Presidential Envoy
The massive construction boom behind AI, the cloud, and our increasingly digital world If it seems like everyone suddenly wants to build a data center, you are not imagining it. Across the United States, enormous data center projects are being proposed and constructed at a remarkable pace. They are showing up outside major cities, in rural communities, near power plants, and in places that probably… Read more: Why Is Everyone Suddenly Building Data Centers?
The war began before Israel existed. Within days of the United Nations vote to partition Palestine in November 1947, fighting broke out between the Jewish and Arab communities already living there. By the time the war ended, the State of Israel would exist. Palestine would not. Roughly 700,000 Palestinians would be refugees. Thousands of Jewish people and Palestinians would be dead. Hundreds of Palestinian villages… Read more: [Part 1] Independence and Catastrophe: 1948
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We talk about the future as if it is a place we are all traveling toward together. Artificial intelligence will transform work. Automation will eliminate jobs. Data centers will spread across the country. Cities will become smarter. Cars will drive themselves. Algorithms will know more about us. Climate change will reshape where and how we live. Robots will become part of everyday life. Some of… Read more: The Future Is Not Inevitable. Who Decides What Comes Next?
There was a time when Americans openly argued about whether their country was becoming an empire. They did not always hide the argument behind phrases like “global leadership,” “strategic interests,” “national security,” or “maintaining international order.” They used the word imperialism. Senators debated it. Newspapers argued about it. Political organizations formed around opposing it. Writers, labor leaders, business leaders, socialists, clergy members, academics, and ordinary… Read more: What Happened to the Anti-Imperialists? Part One: America Once Had an Anti-Imperialist Movement
Paolo Zampolli has one of those biographies that sounds as if several different people’s résumés were accidentally combined. He has been a modeling agent, New York socialite, real-estate dealmaker, friend of Donald and Melania Trump, Caribbean diplomat, United Nations fixture, environmental advocate and business associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Now he is also a presidential envoy. For years, Zampolli was mostly a supporting character in other… Read more: Paolo Zampolli: From Model Agent to Presidential Envoy
The massive construction boom behind AI, the cloud, and our increasingly digital world If it seems like everyone suddenly wants to build a data center, you are not imagining it. Across the United States, enormous data center projects are being proposed and constructed at a remarkable pace. They are showing up outside major cities, in rural communities, near power plants, and in places that probably… Read more: Why Is Everyone Suddenly Building Data Centers?
The war began before Israel existed. Within days of the United Nations vote to partition Palestine in November 1947, fighting broke out between the Jewish and Arab communities already living there. By the time the war ended, the State of Israel would exist. Palestine would not. Roughly 700,000 Palestinians would be refugees. Thousands of Jewish people and Palestinians would be dead. Hundreds of Palestinian villages… Read more: [Part 1] Independence and Catastrophe: 1948