After I received a vaccine as a child, my mom would take me to get ice cream. While I inhaled my vanilla twist, my body was mounting a response to the inactive virus or bacteria injected into my left arm.
We are on the cusp of a seismic socioeconomic shift—an unprecedented technological revolution that threatens to make many people economically useless. The threat that automation and globalization pose to the working class of the 21st century is more existential, more profound, and more permanent than the threat that industrialization posed to the working masses of the 19th and early 20th century.
By demanding an audit and recount of the presidential election results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, Green Party nominee Jill Stein is playing into the narrative that the elections might have been manipulated and that Donald Trump might not be the legitimate president-elect. Though the Green Party has every right to demand a recount, they are playing a potentially dangerous game, considering what their options are should the recount unearth actual evidence of voter manipulation.
Excerpted and adapted from The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, by Justin Peters.
On May 12, 2015, a northbound Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 carrying 238 passengers to New York from Washington, DC, derailed near Philadelphia while entering a curve at almost twice the designated speed limit. Eight people were killed and more than 200 injured in an instant.
I recently oversaw a study designed to clarify the relationship between pivotal decisions and leadership. Based on our nationwide survey of 500 college-educated adults in professional careers, representative of 16% of adults in the United States, we uncovered four distinct decision-making styles, all defined by the level of accountability and ingenuity employed.
