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- Blue Jays’ John Schneider Sends Message On $60M Bo Bichette Replacement As Concerns Mount
The Toronto Blue Jays skipper acknowledged some struggles for the team’s new $60 million star after a concerning slump.
- Bad Policies Brew Poisonous Politics
Extremism emerges when governments consistently flout public opinion and don’t deliver results.
- How Santa Marta Showed The World A New Way Forward
The conference in Colombia brought together a coalition of the willing wanting to protect nations from the economic, political and environmental impacts of fossil fuels.
- America turns 250. Its greatest innovation wasn’t the car or the computer — it was learning to share risk
The Declaration of Independence wasn't just a political document. The CEO of a global reinsurance company argues it was a blueprint for the risk-sharing infrastructure that made American ambition possible.
- From service to skilled trades: America’s most overlooked workforce pipeline
With millions of trade jobs unfilled and veterans struggling to find work, the path from service to the skilled trades is hiding in plain sight.
Technology
- A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria
Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer or financial analyst—or tech journalist—and…
- It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work.
Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited evidence that AI has shifted the headline numbers. But a troubling change may be hiding beneath the surface: the quiet weakening of the first rung of the career…
- Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI
In an age of AI, Pope looks for "artisans of hope."
- US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal
Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it?
- I spent years forcing myself to finish The Witcher 3—don't repeat my mistake
Consensus and genre labels aren't reliable predictors of what you'll enjoy.
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