“A citizenry with less interest in power than in preserving democracy is the safeguard of last resort...the problem of polarization in the United States began not with voters but with political…
“Tech companies...recognize that inaction toward certain crucial types of misinformation puts them at greater risk of regulation...yet, if any single platform acts too forcefully, it risks provoking…
Destroying ecosystems and the environment “ is the only truly sustainable vaccine against the next pandemic. In other words, it’s time that we stop looking for intelligent life on Mars and start…
Concerning conspiracy theories, “When someone has dismissed the obvious facts, repeating them will not persuade him to see sense. But when people are given time and space to explain themselves, they…
“Although markets are uniquely powerful mechanisms for conveying information and altering behavior, they are ultimately social systems that rest on incomplete and ever-shifting foundations. That…
“When it comes to China...Mr. Trump was a disastrous leader in so many ways, but he is widely seen as having correctly diagnosed the problem with China, even as he bungled the solution. Mr. Biden,…
“Conviction in our ability to find common ground, though, is juxtaposed against the simultaneous feeling it would take brute force, dictatorship or some kind of total miracle to overcome…
“With NFTs, we’ve come yet another step closer to fully digitizing our lives...they are digital files that are stored using a technology called blockchain, which is essentially a digital ledger.…
The U.S.-China meeting “would have been a failure if it had resulted in general declarations to cooperate while minimizing competition...organizing the relationship around cooperation is…
“By strengthening its emissions-reduction targets and investing heavily in clean energy, greentech, and research and development, the European Union has positioned itself as a global climate leader.…
