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How Did the Robot End Up With My Job?

7 months ago

A 2008 poll found that when people were asked whether they had “ever used a government social program” 57 percent said they had not. Respondents were then asked whether they had availed themselves of any federal program, including Social Security, unemployment insurance, the home-mortgage-interest deduction and student loans. 94 percent of those who had denied using programs had benefited from at least one; the average respondent had used four.

Our Hidden Government Benefits

8 months ago

What this means is that modern conservatism is actually a deeply radical movement, one that is hostile to the kind of society we’ve had for the past three generations

8 months ago

I would do what I thought made me happy or how I felt. I have no other way of knowing what to do but how I internally feel.

If It Feels Right

8 months ago

The real question facing America, even in purely fiscal terms, isn’t whether we’ll trim a trillion here or a trillion there from deficits. It is whether the extremists now blocking any kind of responsible policy can be defeated and marginalized.

Credibility, Chutzpah and Debt

9 months ago

A majority of children in all racial groups and 79 percent or more of black and Hispanic children in public schools cannot read or do math at grade level in the fourth, eighth or 12th grades.

The Decade of Lost Children

9 months ago

What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

The Earth Is Full - NYTimes.com

11 months ago

The United Kingdom, where, on average, people live longer than in the U.S., spends only about 9 percent of gross domestic product on medicine, compared with our 18 percent.

Outsource Evaluation to the British - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

12 months ago

“The time has come for all good men to jump, or float, or fly.”

Jack Conte