Editors’ Picks
An Interview with Jo Aggarwal, Co-inventor of Wysa
“Our mission is to make the world mentally resilient, it isn’t to cure depression—it isn’t to cure a mental illness. We’re out there to make sure that nobody is completely alone.”
Money and the Met
The renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art shelves its “pay-as-you-wish” admissions policy in favor of a flat fee
An Interview with Joel Benenson, Chief Strategist and Pollster to Obama and Clinton Campaigns
“Everything about [Obama’s] campaign from beginning to end—the culture, the historic nature of it—was secondary; it was just an unbelievable team effort, and he was an extraordinary candidate.”
An Interview with Evan McMullin, Former Independent Presidential Candidate
“We’ve got to have leaders who will not give in to the temptation to exacerbate and then capitalize on those divisions for political purposes.”
The Oil-backed Petro: Venezuela’s New Cryptocurrency
“Everyone knows the hackneyed saying that money does not grow on trees. However, in the 21st century, money certainly does grow on the Internet.”
A Porn Revolution: Potential and Reform in the Industry
“The sex can stay dirty, but the values have to be clean.”
An Interview with Gretchen Carlson, TV Journalist and Author, Be Fierce
“When I jumped off the cliff all by myself in July 2016, there was no MeToo hashtag or Time’s Up. It was just me alone taking on an incredibly powerful man.”
A Yale Professor Explains: Robert Shiller Talks Economics
“People are driven by talk, narratives, stories. And they don’t look at data independently; they don’t. Most people. They just listen to ‘What’s the story now.'”