Online vs Retail Sales in 2026 and What It Means for Society
Explore how online vs retail sales in 2026 influence societal trends and reflect deeper patterns in consumer behavior and wealth distribution.
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The Global Divide: How Income Inequality Differs Across the World’s Most Powerful Economies
Here we explore how income inequality differs across the world, focusing particularly on the ten most powerful economies and examining the policies and structures that shape their income distribution.
Ending Daylight Saving Time Permanently: Mental Health, Society, and the Global Economy
Twice every year millions of people experience a small but disruptive event: the clocks move forward or backward. The practice, known as Daylight Saving Time (DST), was originally intended to conserve energy and make better use of daylight hours. Yet over the last several decades, research in medicine, psychology, and economics has increasingly questioned whether…
Bias, The Hidden Skew in Everything We Know
Our picture of reality is shaped by our history and our existing understanding, revealing the hidden skew in everything. That is what makes up bias.
Unofficial Recession Indicators: Cottagecore, Lipstick, Strippers, Mosquitoes, and the Economy We Feel
Unofficial recession indicators are everywhere but is the United States in a recession? As of February 2026, the technical answer is no. Real GDP growth remains positive, with current nowcasts for Q1 tracking roughly in the 2.4 to 3.1 percent range annualized. Full-year forecasts cluster near 2.5 to 2.8 percent. Initial jobless claims have ticked…
Bot Farms and the Synthetic Internet: Power, Perception, Labor, and the Philosophy of Attention
Most people know bots exist. They have seen spam replies, suspicious follower spikes, strange comment threads, and engagement that feels artificial. The surprise is not that bots are online. The surprise is how much of the internet they now occupy, and how deeply they shape systems that affect politics, wealth, labor, culture, and even mental…
What Human Work Should Remain — and What Might Make More Sense for AI or Automation To Actually Take On?
What Human Work Should Remain — and What Might Make More Sense for AI or Automation To Actually Take On?
Individual Freedom and Collective Life in the Digital Age
We are living through one of the most socially transformative periods in modern history. Digital infrastructure has reconfigured how we communicate, learn, organize politically, construct identity, and pursue economic opportunity. At the center of this transformation lies a defining cultural tension of the twenty-first century: the expansion of individual agency alongside the weakening coherence of…
How the World’s Most Powerful Countries Handle Financial Crime — And Why None of Them Are Doing Enough
Here we examine how the eight countries ranked highest for power by U.S. News & World Report handle financial crimes.