They Could Be Heroes: Data centers don’t have to be villains in the clean energy transition
Amid all the head-spinning plot twists in the summer blockbuster thriller Eddington—in which Joaquin Phoenix, as a small-town sheriff in the summer of 2020, confronts everything from the COVID-19 lockdowns to online radicalization—one villain stands above the…
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The Youth Boom No One is Preparing For
If you listen to the Youth Bloom podcast as religiously as I do, you know how Catherine Nzuki opens every episode: ‘By the year 2050, one in…
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When Algorithms Become Slumlords: Chicago’s Rent Crisis by Design
INTRODUCTION Chicago is amid a full-blown affordability crisis. Nearly half of residents now spend more than 30% of their income on rent, and 1 in…
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Don’t Ghost India: The U.S. Cannot Afford To Lose This Relationship
The United States of America is acting like it is casually dating the world’s largest democracy—but as mixed signals and mutual frustrations reveal the relationship’s…
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AI Is Our New Commons — and We’re Governing It Badly
Artificial intelligence has become the defining technology of this century. Governments, corporations, and universities around the world are racing to build large language models, faster…
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Defining the Future of Regenerative Agriculture
If capitalism is a cause of the climate crisis, can it also be a solution? Proponents of carbon offset markets would argue yes. Carbon offsets…
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How to make health data breach notifications useful
If a notification lands in someone’s inbox but they can’t understand it, does it make a sound? That’s the question at the heart of some…
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Export controls and transparency: The EU’s strategy to reduce human rights abuses
The European Union is once again showing its commitment to privacy — this time for people outside of its borders. In 2021, the European Union…
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FTC Supervisory Capabilities as a Steppingstone to Federal Privacy Legislation
In a September panel at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Professor Chris Hoofnagle of UC Berkeley presented an interesting perspective: the United States is…
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