For some time now, much of Cuba has found itself increasingly in the dark. In cities and towns across the island, power outages can last for hours or even days. When the lights come back on, families ...

As AI reshapes work, talent leaders must shift from brokering scarce labor to designing accountable hybrid human–AI systems ...

AI is either your most helpful coworker, a glorified search engine or vastly overrated depending on who you ask. A viral essay from an AI CEO and investor claimed the tech is coming for any job that ...

In 2015, Matt Yglesias predicted America’s political system would collapse. Did Trump prove him right?

Neuroscience rarely enjoys clean experiments. Most brain disorders are mosaics of risk genes, aging, lifestyle and chance that leave their origins obscured. Huntington's disease (HD) is different. It ...

As our income-tax scale stands at present, a Very Basic Universal Income of $150 – payable to every tax-resident aged over 18 – could be mostly funded by abandoning the 10.5% and 17.5% tax rates. All ...

Adam Gopnik’s trademark is taking complex ideas and synthesizing them into concepts that people not only can understand, but discover the absurdity and humor within them. He calls this process ...

That’s how Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” and Alfred Uhry’s “Last Night of Ballyhoo” begin, and also Ian Buruma’s memoir about his grandparents, “Their Promised Land.” The idea is, as soon as you show ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics through motion experiments, and earth science through field observations. That ...

CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we ...