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For years it’s been ridiculously cheap to use mega tankers to ship stuff across the ocean. That will stop.

Hearing English in a town where our white faces are exotic makes us pause, and several hours later we’re still drinking...

The UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the liberal international order sought to guarantee rights on an...

Five years ago, as survivor after survivor of sexual abuse stepped forward, a phenomenon bloomed in front of everyone’s...

So you want to “get into the market” because that’s where the real money can be made, but you haven’t been tuning in...

We were standing in the street, half-way home from the day job and momentarily distracted by a good-looking parking cop,...

Do we still have it? Can we invent new aesthetics, design sustainable products and rid our cities of waste . . ....

The critic Raymond Williams once wrote that every historical period has its own “structure of feeling.” How everything...

"It struck as if from on high, like a bolt of lightning. After striking an insulating material such as lawn or earth or...

The authorities can see everything people do, every move they make. This situation is comparable to George Orwell’s 1984...

When I first hit San Francisco back in the ’60s, America was in the throes of an almighty cultural explosion. Everything...

If you burrow deep into the innards of the capitalist algorithm, you’ll find a major flaw: the vast majority of...

History is written by the Outsiders. And right now, as you read these words, it’s happening again.

Do you have any sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic or fat-shaming thoughts?

There’s a word for people who are obsessively focused only on what matters to them, in such granular detail that they...

It is a long way from the west coast of Canada to central New Jersey. In August, I moved from the Lower Mainland to...

GENERATIVE AI JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER, UNTIL IT'S INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE THING IT'S MIMICKING - NAMELY,...

The worst of the corporate criminals have committed inexcusable trespass. Philip Morris, Monsanto, GM, the Sackler...