This essay appears in print in Imagining Global Futures. For a few days in April, my timeline was dominated by images of a ninety-five-year-old woman in Shanghai battling with the “Big ...

When I open my smartphone in the morning, every social media app is full of advertisements marketing something to me. I feel like I’m trapped in a circuitous loop from ads and information coming ...

America is trapped in a democracy doom loop. Neofascism is ascendant. A form of path dependency is setting in, whereby at almost every key decision point Democratic leadership, the country’s elites as ...

I never really thought through my decision to step away from my job. Sure, I weighed the pros and cons. I considered the work I’d be doing, the impact on my quality of life. But I never got around to ...