The story of how one metric has changed the way you see the world — The world feels more dangerous. Our streets seem less safe. The assault on our values is constant. The threats feel real. The enemy is out there — just check your feed. One evening in late October 2014, a doctor checked his own pulse and stepped onto a subway car in…

Our technology has changed this election, and is now undermining our ability to empathize with each other — 2019 note from the author: Though the sentiment remains valid, this article no longer represents the best research on what is causing systemic division in society. For more thorough representation, please read my more recent articles. The thing that has become the most clear to us this election year is…

Reconsidering why we give in the wake of Somaly Mam. — Consider these two stories: — I— A young man growing up poor in the countryside of a developing country is beaten, sold into slavery and forced into a life of a hard labor. He lives through much trauma and eventually escapes, founding an organization dedicated to preventing the violence and horror…