These three essential books explain why a people-first approach to addressing climate change is the only way forward — In 2006, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth seemed to finally rouse popular culture to the threat of climate change. It was shown to community groups, in schools, and even won an Academy Award for best documentary feature. Yet the film — and the host of “green” culture products it inspired…

A transportation revolution doesn’t have to include autonomous vehicles — If you’ve listened to the musings of some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent visionaries, you might believe we’re headed toward a future with ubiquitous autonomous vehicles to shuttle us wherever we want to go. No longer would we have to risk getting stuck in traffic, caught in the rain on…

Tesla fans aren’t saving the planet by ordering every new model — Last week, Elon Musk unveiled his polarizing Cybertruck. I could say a lot on the design decisions and the implications of it, but I want to focus on a different angle that isn’t getting as much attention: the preorder process. Musk prides himself and Tesla on being concerned about the…

Grim stories of unpaid overtime and sexism have workers organizing for change — For those of us who grew up swapping Pokémon with classmates and strategizing how to defeat bosses late into the night with friends, making video games is a dream job. But the reality of working in the industry is different. …

The streaming wars will produce a new oligopoly. We can do better. — For decades, corporate consolidation has been judged almost exclusively on whether it would raise prices for consumers, ignoring how the market power of massive conglomerates can have broader negative effects on society and the economy. That’s finally starting to change. In the past year, the campaign to break up the…

Why celebrate hereditary wealth when inequality is tearing the world apart? — Be warned: there are spoilers ahead. Julian Fellowes’ aristocratic period drama is back. After a successful, five-season run, Downtown Abbey has moved to the big screen, bringing along its full cast of characters — both upstairs and down — as an unexpected announcement sends the typical wave of mild consternation…

It’s another perk to joining the cult of Apple — It’s no secret that the iPhone has been struggling. Since 2016, iPhone sales growth has fallen off a cliff, and revenue was down 12 percent year over year in the third quarter. …

Marvel fans will do anything to protect their superheroes — Disney fans were overjoyed in 2015 when Disney and Sony announced they’d reached an agreement for Spider-Man to be rebooted and join Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). …

Autonomous vehicles could turn neighborhoods into no-go zones — In the 1930s, the federal government surveyed 239 cities across the United States to create mortgage-lending risk maps, dividing the cities into four categories: green for the best areas, blue for areas that were “still desirable,” yellow for “declining” neighborhoods, and red to signify those that were most risky, which…