About Robert Wright
Politics, human nature, and tips on averting the apocalypse
The NonZero Newsletter is your home for analysis and reporting about the biggest challenges facing humanity today. Our team, led by journalist and author Robert Wright, brings you insights into world affairs, domestic politics, and the deeper forces that shape them, including human psychology and rapid technological advance.
Why the name?
Life is full of non-zero-sum games—situations that can have a win-win outcome or a lose-lose outcome, depending on how we handle them. A lot of those “games” are now being played among the world’s nations. They come in such forms as climate change, potentially catastrophic arms races (nuclear, AI, weapons in space, etc.