The convergence of radically disruptive technologies presents unprecedented systemic security challenges. Have our systems become too complex to manage?

Towards improving day-to-day security practice, with recommendations from a free handbook available under GPL.

Studies suggest that a large majority of Americans feel that we need a different, less materialistic way of life which focuses more on fundamental values like family and community. What's holding us back from making the change?

A consensus is emerging from the results of a recent round of improved climate models: we are in very serious trouble, and may already be past the point of no return.

Keeping our economic system intact (despite all the signs that this is an unsound goal) might require increasingly aggressive interventions.

The trade war is not going away any time soon. All the signals are flashing for a worst-case scenario in which both sides harden, a resolution becomes further and further out of reach, and the damage compounds.