Last week, most of the major news outlets ran the perennial story about how the Social Security fund is set to run out of money—now by 2032—and that benefits will have to be cut substantially unless Congress acts. Okay, so act. It’s stupid that we are being made to worry about a problem that’s solvable, […]
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was designed to survive the apocalypse, as humanity’s last testament to its failure. But for a while it seemed the “Earth’s Black Box” hadn’t even survived its own planning process. Now, five years after it was announced to much fanfare, followed […]