I write this list in the spirit of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Indeed, there is a lot of overlap, and I encourage you to read his list too!
Thanks to the rapidly-advancing technique of attribution science, we can now determine “if climate change made some extreme events more severe and more likely to occur, and if so, by how much.
Sprinkled amidst the euphoria of Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President were well-worn pebbles of angst…
In this post I’m going to use some (relatively simple) math to give a sense of how great the Biden Administration has been for America.
The advent of the Internet in general, and tools like Google search in particular, heralded an age in which instant access to all the world’s knowledge would enhance discourse, remove the traditional gatekeepers to information, and lead to greater human flourishing.
A $156 million grant to Capital Good Fund will allow us to reach 15,000+ low-income Georgia households with solar energy, creating tremendous bills savings, emissions reductions, and job opportunities.
It is for good reason that tax-exempt organizations are prohibited from partisan activity and limited in the advocacy in which they engage. As a matter of policy, democracies are right to exempt from taxation work that benefits the common good and not work that advances a particular politician or political agenda.
When the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) passed, it was like Christmas morning for those of us concerned about the climate crisis: we spent the coming weeks scouring the bill, finding new “gifts” like $27 billion to establish a national green bank…
By forming OpenAI as a nonprofit, the founders–which included Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn–hoped to avoid what happens to nearly all venture-backed companies: the insatiable profit motive soon overwhelms any stated concerns for social good.
It’s easy to look out at the world and despair, to ask what point there is in donating to nonprofits, voting, protesting, calling your elected officials, writing Op-Eds. There is no shortage of anecdotes and pithy quotes to rebut that […]