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Thousands of Houstonians stranded by Harvey’s flooding have been rescued by private citizens. It could be a glimpse of the future of communities. Think crowd, not department. The Cajun Navy was [...]

Apple’s CEO thinks businesses have a moral responsibility to help grow the economy. It’s a traditional capitalist idea that others should copy. He expanded on that idea, according to a recent [...]

OkCupid isn’t going to let Nazis use its site anymore, and other social platforms are asking users to report hate speech. It’s the wrong answer to a real problem. Before your head explodes, [...]

If Uber were a foreign company selling underpriced goods or services in order to gain market share, it would be considered dumping, and duly punished. Instead, it’s the world’s most valuable tech [...]

After the racist marchers in Charlottesville made Tiki their torch brand of choice, the company issued a statement rejecting it: “We do not support their message or the use of our products in [...]

It looks like a lot of people in the US plan to view tomorrow’s total solar eclipse, which will make it a rare moment of shared experience. Actually, the event itself is rare, since the last one [...]

With the US bowing out of the Paris Climate Accord and the head of both the Energy Department and EPA openly questioning climate science, I got to thinking about how the government ever got its [...]

The Economist’s Nicholas Barrett interviewed Douglas Rushkoff about the way digital tech companies practice what he calls extractive capitalism: though digital tools are inherently flat and [...]

P&G’s commercial “The Talk” has generated millions of views and shares, and generated lots of commentary both supporting and deriding it. It’s a shoo-in for some sort of award next year in [...]

By Anna Spiewak Remember as a child, when you played outside in the summer, your restless eyes would fixate on one amazing creature—the big, bright black and orange butterfly flying about, then [...]