In the era of social media, our image is everything. We spend hours curating our Instagram feed, creating “professional’ posts to share with our network on Linkedin, and preparing for fancy dinners with business partners. This reliance on our image leaves our social standings easily exposed to any information that might tarnish it in the eyes of our circles of acquaintances.

Is there a way for governments to condition those individuals that do not contribute their fair share to society to do so by threatening to publicly air their dirty laundry?

Lately, I’ve been encountering a lot of articles in my Medium feed dealing with the fact that Donald Trump has tumbled from totalitarian admirer into a full-blown fascist. Whether this is a growing issue of debate on the platform or the algorithm is pushing more of this type of content uniquely towards me I think this is an issue that should be further discussed.

The most recent article that I had a chance to read on this topic was by umair haque. In his piece, Umair’s comments came in the aftermath of the speech the US President held in front…

My country is at a turning point that will determine the road we undertake for the foreseeable future and yet the most interested parties — our youth — has no one to represent them in the decision-making process.

When Italy became the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic in Europe we knew that our already fragile economic situation was about to get much worse. Before the pandemic, we had a stagnant economy and a worrisome 134.8% debt-to-GDP ratio, two measures that left little room for much needed expansive fiscal policies. …

Across the globe, the poorest communities face unacceptable levels of risk—a fact that’s become painfully clear during the pandemic. Even though microcredit institutions are now widespread even in some of the most impoverished areas of the world, the most common solutions to mitigate risks—insurance policies—have yet to take hold.

In their book Poor Economics, Nobel Prize-winning authors Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo tackle this issue and several others with an eye toward alleviating global poverty.

While studying in university, this is one of the topics that most piqued my interest. Though I learned about the main structure of banks…

During the first half of 2020 many of us found ourselves quarantined, trapped in tiny apartments, and dreaming of running away to live in an old rustic Italian village.

While we were simply dreaming of a fresh start there were a select few people from all over the world that had actually decided to make the jump, enticed by an unusual policy that advertised the opportunity to buy Italian real estate for just one dollar.

I know, this sounds like an advertisement you’d see while scrolling down a sketchy website. You’d be surprised to know it was actually a legitimate…

Some people have carefully curated playlists, with personalized thumbnails, funny titles, witty descriptions, the whole nine yards. Others follow their friends’ or strangers’ lists about songs with “moon” in the title, or whatever they need to stay up to date with regards to trendy Tik-Tok tunes. Spotify is great for curators and casual users alike: not everyone has the time or care to go and scour the radio algorithms themselves and they don’t have to.

I, as in many things in life, have a very messy Spotify account, or rather I did until last week.

Keep in mind my Spotify…