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MIT’s Acemoglu Sees a Skills Gap in the U.S.

The Greatest Generation’s Squandered Legacy

Why Some Countries Go Bust

Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history

The Poverty of Nations

Review: ‘Catching the Sun’ Profiles Solar Energy Entrepreneurs and Activists

Catching the Sun

Meet the director of a solar documentary you’ll actually want to watch

‘Coded Bias’ Is the Most Important Film About AI You Can Watch Today

‘Coded Bias’: Film Review

The Must-Have Effect

ShaliniKantayya.net

2015 Best 40 Under 40 Professors

Why Hiding Your True Self Feels So Terrible

Developing Employees Who Think for Themselves

Why the U.S. Government Is Embracing Behavioral Science

The Unexpected Influence of Stories Told at Work

Is It the Right Time for a Fresh Start?

Don’t Make Important Decisions Late in the Day

Explaining Gender Differences at the Top

Why Too Much Experience Can Backfire

The Problem with Being a Top Performer

Women May Find Management Positions Less Desirable

Dazzled by Creativity: Why We Excuse Dishonest Acts

Learn to Love Networking

The Business Case for Curiosity

‘Rebels’ Approach Work in a Completely Different Way Than Their Peers. Here Are 3 Things They Do Better

When Solving Problems, Think About What You Could Do, Not What You Should Do

FrancescaGino.com

Need More Self-Control? Try a Simple Ritual

Interview with Lego expert and book author Professor David Robertson

How LEGO Stopped Thinking Outside the Box and Innovated Inside the Brick

Tread the third path to innovation

How ‘Little Ideas’ Can Lead to Powerful Innovations

Building success: how thinking ‘inside the brick’ saved Lego

David Robertson Innovation

Wall Street’s Big Win

The Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin Gives Goldman a Rubdown

The Great American Bubble Machine

Looting Main Street

Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

America for Sale: An Exclusive Excerpt from Matt Taibbi’s New Book on the Economic Meltdown

Jailed for Being Broke

Matt Taibbi: America Has A ‘Profound Hatred Of The Weak And The Poor’

Matt Taibbi’s The Divide: incandescent indictment of the American justice-gap

All Articles

How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable

Trump the Destroyer

Matt Taibbi on Donald Trump’s strange appeal

Steve Bannon Splits From Trump: Hilarity Ensues

North Korea Isn’t the Only Rogue Nuclear State

Finally Everyone Agrees: Health Care Is a Human Right

TK News by Matt Taibbi

Capsule Summaries of All Twitter Files Threads

Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence 2016

Canada risks losing its lead in artificial intelligence to Silicon Valley

Canada must seize opportunity to be a leader in artificial intelligence

How Economists View the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning and the market for intelligence: heavyweights of the AI world gather at U of T

The Obama Administration’s Roadmap for AI Policy

The burgeoning market for artificial intelligence

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence

How AI Will Change the Way We Make Decisions

Billion-dollar breakout

Trudeau gets his geek on at U of T, talking AI and Canada’s future

What Econ 101 Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence

We Survived Spreadsheets, and We’ll Survive AI

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Is Your Company’s Data Actually Valuable in the AI Era?

How AI Will Change Strategy: A Thought Experiment

The Predictive Power of AI

Google’s AI Assistant Is a Reminder that Privacy and Security Are Not the Same

Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over

Prediction Machines Review

The Market for Driverless Cars Will Head Towards Monopoly

Agrawal.ca/Artificial-Intelligence

‘Prediction Machines’ and Your Campus AI Discussion

Karl Subban is Canada’s ultimate hockey dad with three sons in NHL

5 things you may not know about Karl Subban

Karl Subban a childhood hero and inspirational father

Believe in your potential, Karl Subban tells students

Karl Subban on how parents can best set their children up for success

How P.K. Subban’s Dad Prepared Him For the Game of Life

Titus Kaphar Talks Criminal Justice, His TIME Painting, and First Show at Jack Shainman

Dismantling History: An Interview with Titus Kaphar

Behind Titus Kaphar’s Ferguson Protesters Painting

Artist Titus Kaphar on His New Solo Show and Unarmed Black Men in America

Amending American History with Titus Kaphar

Titus Kaphar Is Painting Images of the Criminal Justice System We Need to See

In His New Work, Titus Kaphar Examines Racial Injustice In The Prison-Industrial Complex

A Contemporary Artist Is Helping Princeton Confront Its Ugly Past

Are We Actually Citizens Here?

An Artist Rises, and Brings a Generation With Him

Redaction: A Project by Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts

Titus Kaphar: Language of the Forgotten

KapharStudio.com

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Lewis MacKenzie says Canada must prioritize refugee widows, children

Why this strategy won’t fly in Syria

Canadian Forces: Holding the line on mental health

Let Mother Canada take a stand

Cryptocurrency Is Not Just a Boys’ Club

Ex-JPMorgan Chase Blockchain Duo Unveil New Startup

Amber Baldet

The People Leading the Blockchain Revolution

Clovyr

Bryant Terry marries vegan cooking and African food traditions, with delicious results

Cook the Book: ‘Afro-Vegan’ by Bryant Terry

Bryant Terry’s 5 Thoughts That Will Change the Way You Eat

Bryant Terry’s 5 Essentials for a Modern, Soulful Kitchen

Get a First Look at Bryant Terry’s Genre-Defining New Cookbook, Black Food

Hip-Hop Turned This Chef On To Healthy Food

Chatting With MoAD’s Chef-in-Residence Bryant Terry About Food Justice

Best cookbook, food and wine books of 2021

With 4 Color Books, Bryant Terry Looks to Color Outside the Lines

Mira Nair: An Interview

Bryant Terry

Mira Nair and the Pakistani Dream

On my radar: Mira Nair

‘Monsoon Wedding’ Lifted Moods Onscreen. How About Onstage?

Maris Curran Interviews Mira Nair about the Job of the Film Director

How to Say “This is Crap” In Different Cultures

Cultural Coaching: Knowing When to Shut Up

Are You a Holistic or a Specific Thinker?

Managing Confrontation in Multicultural Teams

The Four Keys To Success With Virtual Teams

China Myths, China Facts

Why the Italians Hated Me, and Could Hate You, Too

Navigating the Cultural Minefield

Why Successful Leaders Acknowledge Cultural Differences

Looking Another Culture in the Eye

Netflix Redefined American Company Culture. Will it Do the Same Abroad?

The secret to disagreeing with people from 20 different countries, in one chart

When Culture Doesn’t Translate

40 Women to Watch Under 40

ErinMeyer.com

A Former Facebook Insider on Why It’s So Hard for the Tech Giant to Get Elections Right

“We must strive to love our country more than we hate our neighbor:” a former CIA officer’s plea to America

Reclaiming Patriotism in Trump’s America

I Worked on Political Ads at Facebook. They Profit by Manipulating Us.

The Real Reason Tech Struggles With Algorithmic Bias

The Shocking Affront of Donald Trump’s C.I.A. Stunt

Former Intel. Official: American Hate is a Bigger Threat Than Foreign Terrorism

Yaël Eisenstat

Berggruen Institute

Kilele Global

Want to Drastically Improve Performance? Tell Me How You Make Toast

There’s a simple 8-step exercise that can help you solve your biggest business problems

TomWujec.com

The future of design, material science and new ways of making things

Should Landlords Be Licensed?

Someone made a list of the worst landlords in Toronto

How open government data creates smarter societies

Check before you rent

Does the Apartment You’re About to Rent Have Bedbugs and Mold? This Entrepreneur Will Help You Find Out

Why Isn’t There a Landlord Blacklist?

Waneek Horn-Miller Remembers Oka

Confrontation over Pocahontas costume takes surprising turn

Rentlogic.com

Warrior spirit powers Canada’s cheerleader-in-chief, from Oka crisis to Pan Am Games

Pan Ams’ Waneek Horn-Miller an Oka Crisis survivor

Waneek Horn-Miller

Former Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller discusses her new ‘mission’: the MMIW inquiry

Indigenous Games: How Oka Crisis strengthened water polo star’s resolve

Working It Out Together

Why Should Anyone Care About Food Trends?

Food fads: Let them eat kale

“How Au Courant I Am, Eating This Pig Face”

What She’s Having

Paleo, vegan, gluten-free—the only certainty about health trends is their reversal

Confessions of a Bandwagon Fan

Food Networks

Kodak’s Old-School Response to Disruption

Why Startups Love Moleskines

The Bacon Boom Was Not an Accident

In the Age of Cybercrime, the Best Insurance May Be Analog

Kodak To Revive Storied Super 8 Camera

Why Would Amazon Want To Be the New Barnes & Noble?

The Company That’s Keeping the Polaroid Legacy Alive

The Breathless Rhetoric (and Prosaic Economics) of Virtual Reality

The Failure of the iPad Classroom

How Years of Macho Food Marketing Is Killing Men

New Hope for Record Store Day’s Vinyl-Supply Troubles

Pause! We Can Go Back!

The Analog Spaces in Digital Companies

Our Love Affair With Digital is Over

What Toronto Knows About Trump After Living Through Rob Ford

What You’ll Discover When You Unplug Over Christmas

End the Innovation Obsession

The Revenge of Analog: An Interview with David Sax

One Woman’s Instagram-Fueled Ascent to ‘Boss Lady Status’

The Coronavirus Is Showing Us Which Entrepreneurs Matter

The Good Life Begins Outdoors

‘The Soul of an Entrepreneur’ Review: Doing It for Themselves

To Get Through COVID-19, Entrepreneurs Need to Embrace These 2 Truths

David Sax: The Future of Hospitality is Analog

Why Strangers Are Good for Us

Preparing students for college challenges reduces inequality

David Sax

Teenagers more likely to eat healthily if they think it is rebellious

Would You Be Happier With a Different Personality?

A Small Fix in Mind-Set Can Keep Students in School

How a Bigger Purpose Can Motivate Students to Learn

Hearing That Things Can Change Helps Teens Dodge Depression

Should Grit Be Taught and Tested in School?

How to Motivate Students to Work Harder

Teaching Teenagers to Cope With Social Stress

Adolescent Development Research Group

Who Gets to Graduate?

Can Teenage Defiance Be Manipulated for Good?

Angela Y. Davis to Be Honored at the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center First Awards

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Angela Davis on Ferguson, Palestine & the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Davis And Gloria Steinem On The Power Of Revolutionary Movements

Activist, former Black Panthers leader Angela Davis to visit Haiti

Black Lives Matter YA Book ‘The Hate U Give’ Acquired After Massive Bidding War

‘The Hate U Give’ Explores Racism and Police Violence

How Tupac’s THUG LIFE Inspired This Woman’s YA Novel

An exceptional book that speaks truth to power

This story is necessary. This story is important.

This Teen Book About Black Lives Matter Is the No. 1 YA Book in the Country Right Now

Hate engages in a crucial and strenuously current conversation

“The Hate U Give”: Angie Thomas, Children of Promise and the girl in the mirror

‘The Hate U Give’ is required reading for this American moment

Angie Thomas: the debut novelist who turned racism and police violence into a bestseller

On Diversity in Publishing, a Young Star Warms: Get It Right

THUG: Angie Thomas talks about her brilliant debut novel

Angie Thomas Lets Hip-Hop Speak in Her New Novel, ‘On the Come Up’

Books Play a Huge Part in Resistance

AngieThomas.com

Best young adult books of 2021

In Angie Thomas’s ‘On the Come Up,’ a Young Rapper Finds Her Way

The Only Female Photojournalist in Gaza

“Why Would a Woman Cover War?”

Q&A with Eman Mohammed

How Eman Mohammed fought misogyny to become Gaza’s first female photojournalist

EmanMohammed.com

How President Trump’s Immigration Ban Affected This Photographer

Cesar Harada: Inventor, environmentalist, educator

Q&A: Cesar Harada on the Promise of an Open-Source Oil Skimming Robot

“The problems are so huge I can’t be pessimistic”

Not all forgotten American cities are struggling

CesarHarada.com

Language as Art in Pittsburgh

How the ‘Having It All’ Debate Has Changed Over the Last 30 Years

The Power and the Peril of Our Crowdfunded Future

When Small Loans Make A Big Difference

Your $25 can start a business, change a life

Our Towns

On Election Day, the bad guy won. Here’s how we broke it to our kids.

Clay Water Brick author Jessica Jackley discovered dignity and pride in some unexpected places

KIVA

What Happens When You Fall in Love Across the Religious Divide?

Book Review: Clay Water Brick

Alaska: The Final (Architectural) Frontier

WILD SURF

Searching for the Origins of Life Thousands of Feet Underwater

Freediver James Nestor

Chasing Waves South of Tokyo

Why breathing through your mouth is bad for your health

Changing How You Breathe Could Change Your Life

The Healing Power of Proper Breathing

3 simple tips to breathe better, and lower your stress levels and blood pressure

How The ‘Lost Art’ Of Breathing Can Impact Sleep And Resilience

Breathe Better With These Nine Exercises

Author James Nestor on how breathing properly can improve overall health

How one hour of slow breathing changed my life

‘Breath’ Review: Eager Breather

Mouth breathing might be ruining your sleep. Here’s how to fix it

James Nestor

Anthony Jack: A New Voice for Diversity in Higher Ed

Poor, but Privileged

I Was a Low-Income College Student. Classes Weren’t the Hard Part.

Assistant Professor of Education

What the Privileged Poor Can Teach Us

The war against ISIS: What’s changed for the terrorists

The ‘Caliph’ Speaks

The Three Types of People Who Fight for ISIS

‘What ISIS Really Wants’: The Response

Donald Trump and the Apocalypse

What Politicians Don’t Get About the Islamic State

What ISIS Really Is

Inside the minds of jihadis

The American Leader in the Islamic State

Author delves into what motivates ISIS supporters

The West can never hope to understand Islamic State

The Data behind the Most-Read Article of 2015

What ISIS Really Wants

His Kampf

Book reviews: fresh insights on Islam and Isis

The Gun Guru of YouTube

Where Nassar’s Judge Went Wrong

Making a Difference—And Making Profits

The Found er of Tala On her Leap from Finance to Fundraising for her Mission-Driven Startup

10 Innovative Women Building Mega-Successful Businesses

California-Based Microcredit Messiah, Tala, Raises $110 Million in Series D from RPS & Others

Tala

The $100 Trillion Opportunity: The Race to Provide Banking to the World’s Poor

Give People Some (Micro) Credit—And Transform Their Lives

The Human Element

Your Best Ideas Are Often Your Last Ideas