Hollywood has a long and storied history of standing up for and highlighting issues on behalf of vulnerable and special interest groups. Its advocacy for marginalized groups seemingly has no bounds and has indeed raised important questions for society. Yet this is what we do not see in the new ...
Recently, Californians voted against Proposition 33, a ballot measure that would have allowed cities across the state to impose broader rent control policies. Despite record-breaking campaign spending — over $150 million between supporters and opponents — 62% of voters rejected the ...
Donald Trump has won America's presidential election. Many have long worried that a Trump victory would place American democracy in jeopardy. Washington Post Columnist Ishaan Tharoor, for example, detailed myriad ways he thinks a victorious Trump would subvert American democracy: “As my ...
America approached the 2024 election like there were only two choices for the future of the country. Those two choices were two individual personalities championing the policies of two different political parties. There actually was and is a third choice. It may not have been on the ballot, ...
With the increasing presence of generative artificial intelligence in the written word, I fear for the future of literature. ChatGPT and I are friends. I knew early on that with AI-written content slowly churning out the same repeated drivel on social media and (unfortunately) some ...
I have never logged into my bank or savings account and wondered if it was forward that day. When I worked in finance, no client ever asked me if the stock market or their brokerage account was forward today. It was always, "Am I up or down," and by what percentage. This may seem obvious, but ...
