Work in Progress
Derek Thompson, Rogé Karma, Annie Lowrey, Jerusalem Demsas, and others explain today’s news and tomorrow’s trends in work, technology, and culture. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Derek Thompson, Rogé Karma, Annie Lowrey, Jerusalem Demsas, and others explain today’s news and tomorrow’s trends in work, technology, and culture. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Test scores have been falling for years—even before the pandemic.
The way we commonly discuss mental-health issues, especially on the internet, isn’t helping us.
Persistent employment misery is a myth.
Corporate governance is playing a starring role in the chaos unfolding inside the world’s most famous AI start-up.
Turns out you can tame inflation without triggering a recession. Will the Federal Reserve accept the good news?
Change them, and you change America.
Researchers at UC San Francisco have released the largest representative survey of homeless people in more than 25 years.
Higher education risks becoming a cut-price assembly line. There’s a better way of producing good learning.
Commercial real estate is losing value fast.
The fact that AI isn’t alive doesn’t mean it can’t be sentient, the sociologist Jacy Reese Anthis argues.
House Republicans have voted to make benefits even more conditional. All that can achieve is turning down legitimately eligible recipients.
The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys.
The average American my age is roughly six times more likely to die in the coming year than his counterpart in Switzerland.
Many public crusaders are private reactionaries.
Workism is rooted in the belief that employment can provide everything we have historically expected from organized religion.
The internet loves bad news. And that’s bad.
And why the makers of AI should learn from the tale of Prometheus
We are still learning exactly how much of this industry’s genius was a mere LIRP, or low-interest-rate phenomenon.
A culture of obsessive student achievement and long schoolwork hours can make kids depressed.
Working from home could be making it easier for couples to become parents—and for parents to have more children.