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Government

Affordable housing in the US is increasingly scarce, making renters ask:...

Staff Writer - March 14, 2022

Celine-Marie Pascale, American University The United States is facing an expanding gap between how much workers earn and how...

Religion

Silicon Valley’s latest fad is dopamine fasting – and that may...

Staff Writer - January 23, 2020

A. Trevor Sutton, Concordia Seminary Silicon Valley’s newest fad is dopamine fasting, or temporarily abstaining from “addictive” activities such as social media, music, internet gaming...

Business

A Triumph of Transformational Leadership in the Social Sector: Metta and...

Staff Writer - October 24, 2018

Metta and Keith Krach Honored with Citizen Leadership Award On October 25, at City Year’s Annual Gala in Levi’s Stadium, the non-profit youth organization will...

science

Silicon Valley, from ‘heart’s delight’ to toxic wasteland

Staff Writer - July 11, 2018

Andrew L. Russell, SUNY Polytechnic Institute and Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech There was a time when California’s Santa Clara Valley, bucolic home to orchards and...

Economy

Silicon Valley’s cautionary tale shows what can go wrong when charities...

Staff Writer - July 9, 2018

Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University An obsession with growth. A failure to intervene when an executive allegedly bullies and sexually harasses staff. High employee...

Tech

What the Google gender ‘manifesto’ really says about Silicon Valley

Staff Writer - August 12, 2017

Marie Hicks, University of Wisconsin-Madison Five years ago, Silicon Valley was rocked by a wave of “brogrammer” bad behavior, when overfunded, highly entitled, mostly white...

Business

Can Silicon Valley’s autocrats save democracy?

Staff Writer - March 19, 2017

Jerry Davis, University of Michigan In late February, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an essay that laid out the social network’s vision for...

Computer

Is Europe’s Google antitrust probe a ‘war’ against US tech?

Staff Writer - June 11, 2015

Peter K Yu, Drake University and John Cross, University of Louisville Last month, the European Commission (EC) filed a formal antitrust complaint against Google for...