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The Future Is Not Ours (and Neither Is the Past)

Jul 21, 2014
The famed fog of war is nothing compared to the fog of the future or, as I’ve often said, I’d be regularly riding my jetpack in traffic through the spired city of New York, as I was promised in my childhood. Our urge to predict the future is unsurpassed. Our ability to see it as it will be: next to nil.

In Online Journalism, ‘Fast Doesn’t Always Equal Right’

May 30, 2014
Once something's out on the Web, it's hard to retract, even if it's factually incorrect; old age may not begin when we traditionally thought it did; meanwhile, Richard Martinez, the father of one of the Isla Vista shooting victims, hits the nail on the head when it comes to the politics behind many mass murders. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Relax, Relax at the Dying of the Light

May 9, 2013
AARP magazine, which boasts the largest circulation of any periodical in the world, used to focus on injustice, something it now calls "negativity."

No Time for ’Tirement’

Jan 3, 2011
In little over a century, Americans have gone from a life expectancy of 47 to one of 78. By 2025 there will be 66 million Americans over 65. The decisions that we make individually and collectively about how to spend this gift of time will reshape the country.