There’s no reason to believe that some “robust international discussion” about genetic engineering will spontaneously emerge post-moratorium (Louis Pasteur obliterated that innovative scientific idea in 1859). Maybe we need to add an independent third-party to the experiment instead? 

If the old adage “you can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies” holds true, then the Green New Deal is the real thing. Its opponents are deathly scared of it.

New Yorkers should invest in themselves, just as we all should, and let the Amazons move wherever they like. This match was not made in heaven.

The truth is that there’s no public outcry for less visibility into the operation of companies, especially those in the tech space. I say the only advocates for less transparency are those business operators with something to hide.

Did you catch the common thread? It’s not just chance that it was there. Anybody who knows a thing about advertising knows that Super Bowl ads work best when they play on themes of sex, crude jokes, more sex...or puppies. But robots?

Businesses have impacts on consumers’ lives that far exceed the effects stock price ups and downs have on shareholders, and remain beyond the reach that any boycott or purchase choice might influence. But I think things are changing...

At its heart, climate change is and always will be a populist issue. Using the term to define, or even excuse senseless street violence gives it a bad name.

You’d think the organizers of the North American International Auto Show would have brainstormed ways to make it easier for media to attend, but that's not the case; in fact, they've made it harder.

It would be truly radical if its employees stepped up to assume that responsibility; so less isolated gestures of justified indignation, and more proactive attention to the ways stuff gets done. Doing so would require that they extend the purview of their awareness beyond the issues that touch only them, and include the rest of us.