The New Culture of Poverty

American politics has reinvigorated the study of poor and working-class communities.

How Hollywood Manipulates you Using Your Childhood Memories

It’s not that we’ve run out of fresh ideas: It’s that the old ones are safer money-making bets.

Home in Shipping Container

Shipping containers, as we know them today, are the brainchild of Malcom Purcell McLean, a trucker from North Carolina credited with revolutionizing the shipping industry.

Inside the big business of being a social media influencer

The influencer category is a $1 billion industry and it’s projected to grow to $2.4 billion in just two years. In some ways, it’s just a throwback to integrated content at the dawn of television.

What We Know About Financial Bubbles

What do we know now about bubbles? Where do they come from? How can they be prevented from happening and wrecking the livelihoods of so many?

China’s struggle to overcome technological imperialism

The Chinese Typewriter tells the fascinating story of technological colonialism, racism and the complexities of a language unlike any other.

What should I teach my children to prepare them to race with the robots?

Many of the jobs first displaced by automation belong to peoples of color, women and others who depend on a combination of part-time positions.