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The America of Tomorrow Could Use a 20th-Century Welfare State Intelligencer 1 hr ago © Joe Raedle/Getty Images No lies detected. Joe Raedle/Getty Images We’re entering an age of economic upheaval. Robots were already coming for workers’ jobs before the pandemic, and COVID hastened their arrival: To comply with public-health protocols while keeping pace with demand, firms have deployed automation in warehouses, grocery stores, call centers, and manufacturing plants. Meanwhile, a profusion of breakthrough technologies — from AI to quantum computing to bioscience — is poised to tra...

Last week I downloaded the NHS App. I don't mean the NHS Covid app – I have that too but disabled it months ago because it endlessly pinged messages telling me I'd been exposed to Covid when I hadn't even left the house. The NHS App has, apparently, been knocking around for years, offering a way for patients to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and view medical records. But I'd never heard of it prior to this month, when it was announced it would become our default Covid passport: a way of displaying our vaccination status. We are likely to need it to go abroad – just showing...

Towards a ‘smart’ sarkar: Covid demands a new model of citizen-focussed governance May 20, 2021, 7:27 AM IST Sagarika Ghose has been a journalist for over three decades, starting her career with The Times of India, subsequently moving to Outlook magazine and The Indian Express. She has been a primetime news anchor and has also worked as Consulting Editor, The Times Of India. She is also a political commentator on the news channel ET Now. Ghose is the author of the best selling biography of Indira Gandhi, "Indira, India's Most Powerful Prime Minister." She is the author o...

To understand the salacious, constant coverage of Cheney by the press, we must venture across the Atlantic to Great Britain.

Politics parties of the left must modernise their economic message or face marginalisation, even extinction, writes former British prime minister Tony Blair.