When people have fallen ill throughout history, medical practitioners have tended to treat them with one-size-fits-all medications—a single medicine for everyone with Illness A, and another for all ...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t your typical office worker. He was No. 3 on the 2020 Forbes list of the richest Americans, with a net worth of $125 billion, give or take. But there’s at ...

Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

Back in 2020, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill wrote about an experiment she conducted for the news site Gizmodo the year before to see how hard it would be to disconnect from Big Tech—Amazon, ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

Recently, I was reminded of the commonly used slogan “evidence-based policy.” Except for pure marketing purposes, I find this terminology to be a misnomer, a misleading portrayal of academic discourse ...

Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer while the middle class has stagnated. While protesters have called for the 1 ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...

Walk down the aisles of any US convenience store and you could easily feel assailed by rows of similar—yet different—products competing for attention. Bags of Tostitos Scoops! tortilla chips share ...

To appreciate the edge that artificial intelligence can bring to the financial markets, it’s worth understanding how fast the technological landscape has changed for investors. It has been propelled ...

The proportion of the global population living on less than $1.90 per person per day has fallen—from 18 percent in 2008 to 11 percent in 2013, according to the World Bank. In the United States, ...

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. The pandemic was unprecedented and its consequences for the globalized economy very hard to predict. The fiscal response, perhaps much more generous because polarized ...