Can Universal Basic Income End Our Cultural Obsession With Work?: In 1948, German philosopher Josef Pieper predicted that society was headed for a dystopia he called 'Total Work'. With most of us in 2017 working too long, missing social events, working… https://t.co/WWpVGlGtpv
The collapse of Venezuela, explained: The collapse of Venezuela and President Maduro's rise to dictatorship. Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America. It has the largest known oil reserves in the world. And its democratic government was… https://t.co/2c3mlWDK6X
Rebranding White Nationalism: Inside Richard Spencer’s Alt-Right: Richard B. Spencer greeted an audience of more than 200 at an alt-right conference in Washington D.C. last month with the cry, “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” He was met with… https://t.co/E7p3H9Oggr
How poor people survive in the USA: Homelessness, hunger and shame: poverty is rampant in the richest country in the world. Over 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years ago. It can happen… https://t.co/Xagb9hZzmE
How Billie Eilish and Her Family Make Music: The fastest-rising pop star of the moment is 17 and writes off-kilter hits with her older brother from their parents’ house. Breaking down Billie Eilish’s “Bury a Friend,” we show a new model for making it… https://t.co/utYjALbIUG
Kolyma – Birthplace of Our Fear: Film about the brutal Soviet penal camps under the rule of the dictator Josef Stalin. The 32-year-old Juir Dud travelled from Magadan on the Pacific to Jakutsk in Siberia to speak with descendants of Gulag prisoners.… https://t.co/htCJlXopjp
It’s Getting Harder to Spot a Deep Fake Video: Fake videos and audio keep getting better, faster and easier to make, increasing the mind-blowing technology's potential for harm if put in the wrong hands. Bloomberg QuickTake explains how good deep fakes… https://t.co/bDWO9FjT1U
Discovering a stolen artwork after 32 years: It is rather the exception that the theft of a work of art is resolved after 32 years. This happened in the USA, where at the end of November 1985 a painting by Willem de Kooning was stolen from a public… https://t.co/fNGP5XMpAn