Event Archives: 2013

Americans often view saving as a type of self-deprivation, the financial equivalent of eating your vegetables. What if the broccoli came with a side of sizzle? What if saving could offer some of the same thrill that spenders and gamblers experience? 

In the near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society? What will happen when deeply political, moral, and irresolvable problems are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency?

In the Denver suburbs, as in much of the U.S., the Great Recession has turned formerly financially stable families into the new homeless—and left many living in budget hotels where they pay for their rooms by the week. They call themselves “the weeklies,” and senior writer Monica Potts chronicles their experiences in the latest issue of The American Prospect.

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