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Tyler Cowen reflects on the decline of residential beauty.

Does this mark a change for young people and tech?

Encryption isn't enough.

Tyler Cowen asks if this is the US next great cultural export.

Tyler Cowen believes economics can reveal all.

The world’s logistical problems keep getting worse.

Will the country survive decades of tragedy and instability?

Some promises are just impossible to meet.

Was its CEO an innocent Silicon Valley failure or massive fraud?

Learnings from Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.

For Leonid Bershidsky, it has the clearest case for privacy-protecting innovations.

Tyler Cowen analyses games' self-contained nature.

With urbanization, the country is playing the long game.

Office workers are being set free.

Vaccine protection won't last as long as initially thought.

Goodbye to 7th-century idealism.

The planet’s saviour could be the chemistry of the stars.

An analysis of their economic expertise.

For the historian, the time for change is now.

Medieval Europe could be coming to urban America.

It’s all in the name.

Why you should start talking to people you don’t know.

Will this startup harness a crime-free future?

In fact, it could be doing the opposite.

And how it could also transform the office/retail landscape.

Tyler Cowen explores the many possibilities.

Matt Levine on investment risk-management, Robinhood and Wall Street interns.

Bringing mental health awareness to the forefront of sport.

They could find strength in working together.

Is infrastructure the key to our survival?

Humanity is in a dangerous juggling act.

Matt Levine analyses the conflict of interest behind SolarCity's acquisition by Tesla.

Companies are super-charging their panels.

Will eating out be the same?

China may have found a new weapon.

Money Stuff’s Matt Levine talks big business, Archegos and investor education.

Exploring the difficulty of predicting climate change.

Why working 9-5 isn’t slacking.

Behind the scenes of the world’s most notorious laboratory.

Why does the US rank so poorly in maternal mortality rates?

Students are starting to find college not worth the money.

Even millionaires don’t believe they’re rich.

Tyler Cowen on the miseducation of crypto evangelists.

The link between Caravaggio and NFTs.

Could this be the start of a cure for dementia?

There’s an emerging competitor for Big Tech.

The digital dollar would cause a revolution.

The secrets behind their feedback policy.

Citylabs: is car-free living staying?

The profession suffers from a lack of imagination.

Are disasters a political construct?

Why companies should tell all in the aftermath of a cyber attack.

Is it time for the US to tighten up its infrastructure?

The world is not so simple.

Realistically, going back won’t be an option.

How to capitalise on your big idea before it's too late.

Could the metal be the key to a healthier planet?

There's no need to suppress voter turnout to win.

Netflix sells a moment; Disney sells a lifetime.

Do you feel things on the internet are getting more expensive? Well, you may be onto something.

Large-scale financial volatility and market dysfunction could be the last thing the economy needs.

Tyler Cowen: allowing free and early access to academic research quickens the pace of progress.

Joe Biden's decision to create a cabinet for climate-related issues could radically transform US foreign policy.

Why champions of autocracy shouldn't be so quick to crow over U.S. election chaos.

Politics of resentment have acquired a long lease of life in U.S. politics and society.

The famous American restaurateur and TV personality sets the path for the future of restaurants.

A 230-year-old system that was flawed from the start, says Justin Fox.

Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson won the Prize in Economic Sciences 2020.

Small wars can tell you a lot about the biggest geopolitical and military issues of the day.

Hari Nada's score-settling created chaos that haunts the carmaker to this day.

Failing to update our beliefs in response to new information could result in democracy's collapse.

How white Christianity has helped grant moral legitimacy to racist attitudes.

Excessive market power isn’t confined to companies that run digital platforms.

The US, India and Brazil are faring dramatically worse than other countries.

A teaching semester in Norway reinvents the notion of downtime.

What makes a classroom so unique that an online setting can't emulate it?

The world's biggest central banks are usually the ones to break old models.

Reopening the EU's internal borders shows just how tricky living with COVID-19 really is.

What local road trip have you not yet taken?

The argument that there is no alternative to the U.S. currency makes little sense.

The world is having serious doubts about American exceptionalism.

There’s a difference between the law and police norms, as the Supreme Court justice explained.

Social unrest helped doom Lyndon Johnson's presidency — can it end up saving Trump's?

His speech after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was beautiful. Was it also inadequate?

The party may find it impossible to reclaim its historical identity.

As with any technological shift, the downsides only become apparent after wide and long-term adoption.

The pandemic has provided lessons we can learn about the benefits of technology for students.

Accelerating the search will require global coordination — and a lot of money.

“Remember the movie American Hustle? It’s kind of like that, with way more dirt and twists."

Oil is flooding the market when the world needs it least.

While TV viewership will go up, the surge in demand may expose more of the industry's problems.

Has the European Union bitten off more than it can chew in the African nation?

COVID-19: Sometimes too much efficiency can be a bad thing.

A test of whether coordinated global action can work.

One-page summaries don't predict job performance, but they do perpetuate inequality.

Liberalism is not really the answer.

For all her success in picking winners, she has received little notice.

Turning coronavirus into a "Chinese" disease will only aid and abet its spread.

Where do you draw the line?

He's hailed as an advocate of American restraint, but his actions couldn't have been further from that.

Why Twitter wants to cut its user numbers by 60%.

Depression and anxiety cost the economy $1 trillion a year - so why aren't changes made about it?

Why are so many of America's brightest graduates pursuing non-creative job markets?

From Jeff Bezos' phone hack to the poisoning in Salisbury, today's events are great backdrops.

Free trade has been thrown to the wolves - its failings are easy to spot, but, what's the alternative?

The way an incident is reported to citizens will be more important than whether it actually took place.

The world appeared to have become oblivious to the geopolitics of oil. Now it can’t be ignored.

How the former Renault-Nissan boss fled bail in Japan for Lebanon.

Why impeachment is a process, not a vote.

Legal realities of such cases are hard to accept.

How can social scientists satisfy the growing public hunger for knowledge and accountability?

Could the stars we see from Earth soon be outnumbered by a swarm of satellites?

The many different sides of Facebook's CEO.

A mix of valuable characteristics and luck enabled the legume’s U.S. rise. Has the luck run out?

If you work for a public institution, can the safeguard of its image outweigh your right to free speech?

The attack last week is more complicated than either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn acknowledge.

A reflective piece on why tech offers plenty to feel good about.

Evolution has favoured the friendliest canine and human species over more aggressive competition.

Twitter, Google and Microsoft have endorsed a "Contract for the Web" - but what does it really mean?

George Orwell is relevant again, in a new way, and his most famous book remains as suffocating as ever.

A drawn-out FCC-backed public auction of valuable spectrum or let a private company host it?

Are ads, fake news and social media really the threat to democracy?

What comes next for this technology?

The Kremlin's "escalate to de-escalate" nuclear strategy could easily get out of hand.

It can help everyone when more productive people make more money.

Are the mass protests country after country showing that democracy is not in retreat?

Why pricing environmental goods is critical to redirecting capitalist impulses.

Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short, tells this remarkable story.

The voting decision of three small states in 2016 changed the world, where are we now?

2019's winners offer an 'experimental approach to alleviating global poverty'.

Shut down or shout over, how best do you diffuse unrest in the digital age?

The movement has seen a complex web of winners and losers, but also some very real social gains.

Is the reign of STEM graduates over?

As China celebrates 70 years of communist rule, has it lost its way?

History is riddled with presidential attempts to smash the independence of the Department of Justice.

Why an IPO cannot simply fix a private company’s shortcomings.

The ways US Law could be used to impeach Donald Trump.

Is Duerte rebalancing the geopolitical order in the South China Sea?

Part 2: Does the Left value dogma more than knowledge?

Part 1: A professor's account of being labelled an 'Enemy of the People' for wanting to discuss free speech.

Why has the Left lost its way? The political economist says they abandoned the middle class.

Did the CIA extract a spy from Russia? Have they lost their most crucial intelligence asset there?

Are the world's most 'dangerous' countries really that scary to visit?

Why does it matter if you're 'born this way'?

Whether in Hong Kong or Kashmir, government handouts aren’t going to quell protests.

If a sovereign territory transaction can be used to avoid violence, then why not?

They transformed an unknown Indian rapper into an international YouTube sensation.

U.S. policies towards Africa are outdated - a new approach is needed.

Did YouTube push out its competition fairly?

It seems like a lot of what’s sold as artificial intelligence, actually isn’t.

“Horizontal escalation” is the shifting of war to the enemy’s weak spots - but can it work for the US?

Misallocation and mispricing is ridding the country of its most precious resource.

Has Apple’s hardware-obsessive heritage become a relic?

WhatsApp gobbled up telecoms SMS profits. Now, Amazon and Google are coming for mobile data.

Is it statistically possible to foresee what will become a world-defining time or is history's arc entirely unpredictable? Cass R. Sunstein, writing in Bloomberg, examines if without posterity we are able to define a time as memorable or historic.

In May 2019 multiple studies into the efficacy of FDA approved drugs has revealed that as many as 40% of medicines tested are not meeting their claims. Peter Coy, writing in Bloomberg, investigates the studies' findings and the impact upon patients.

In 2019 Pakistan has secured its 13th IMF bailout since the 1980s. But will this be enough for PM Imran Khan to steer the countries faltering economy to stability?

In June 2019 E-Cigarettes have become the most recent subject of public health scrutiny, but are declarations of "unsafe" actually useful? Faye Flam, writing in Bloomberg offers an alternative to the absolutism of public health warnings, arguing what really need is nuance.

Amazon want to patent "always on" listening for Alexa and consumers are shaken. Is this really out of the ordinary? Stephen L. Carter, writing in Bloomberg suggests the development is inevitable.

Google is spending big in software acquisitions hoping to raise its stakes as a provider of cloud computing. Will it be sufficient? Shira Ovide isn't convinced. Writing in Bloomberg, she investigates.