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Protests against racial injustice are nothing new, but they’re different this time around. The Black Lives Matter movement is a response to worsening racism, but it’s also the result of black people’s increasing power, influence and progress.
In de afgelopen jaren heb ik honderden keren aan cafétafeltjes gezeten, dinertafels en restauranttafels, koffie drinkend en overleg voerend en pompoenfriandises etend met honderden vrouwen. („Jij overdrijft ook altijd zo vreselijk”, zeggen de vrouwen. „Ik overdrijf helemaal niet”, zeg ik. „Honderden vrouwen zijn het intussen en ze zeggen zonder uitzondering hetzelfde.”)Allemaal wijzen ze me op…
We have now fully transitioned into the second wave of the COVID crisis for higher education. Educators and students, having survived the sudden and painful transition to remote education, are now tu
The answer may not be what we think.
In 2016, I was invited to Uber’s headquarters (then in San Francisco) to talk about the failings of the digital economy and what could be done about it. Silicon Valley firms are the only corporations…
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been…
No matter what anyone tells you, we’re not ready for the massive societal upheavals on the way.
Or, Why We’re Going to Have Reimagine Economics, Society, and Politics For a World That’s Running Out of Work
Anyone who claims that machine learning will save money in high-stakes government decision-making is lying
As the Facebook CEO travels across the US to ‘learn about people’s hopes and challenges’, the cafeteria workers at his company struggle to make ends meet
Once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing, but he was possessed by bottomless, endless, grating, grasping wanting, and wanted more, and got it, and more after that, and …
Officials said it was too financially burdensome and logistically challenging to hand over salary records that the government requested in discrimination case
Jim Chalmers and Mike Quigley team up to write a book on the disruptive effects of automation and what Australia should do
Our Focus “This is for everyone.” This simple message is what Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the web, and founding director of the Web Foundati
Big tech companies pay some of the country’s best salaries. But workers claim the high cost of living in the Bay Area has them feeling financially strained
Startup founders like me need to own up to the help we got along the way.
King clashed not just with segregationists, but with elites who viewed his turn against the Vietnam War and concern with economic inequality as dangerous and radical.
This talk was delivered virtually today at Western Oregon University. The slide deck is available here.
Het is een van de grootste mythes van onze tijd: dat welvaart aan de top wordt gecreëerd en de rest van de samenleving daarvan profiteert. In werkelijkheid is het precies andersom. De echte uitkeringstrekkers werken op de Zuidas en de grootste lasten liggen op de schouders van de leraar, verpleger en vuilnisman. Maak kennis met: de rentenierse
Politicians aren’t the only ones to blame for Brexit.
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