By Tom Toce
Here’s another puzzle from the formidable construction team of Bob Fink and Jerry Miccolis.
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By Josh Feldman
Growing up in the ’80s in St. Louis, radio was king. Before the iPod, YouTube, or even Napster, the best way to listen to music was on the radio.
By Ted Gotsch
The release of the Academy’s Social Security Challenge is being praised by the public, policymakers, and in the press alike as an effective way of raising attention to the high-stakes issues facing the nation’s primary federal retirement program and how it can be fixed.
By Sam Gutterman
I was with my family in Miami Beach. Beginning to swim in the Atlantic Ocean, I not only waded through a big clump of seaweed, but also a patch of plastic bags and candy wrappers.
By Jim Lynch
For this website, the editor of Contingencies wanted a follow-up to the recent piece I wrote about ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) (“Artificial Untelligence,” May/June 2023).
Letters regarding the November/December 2022, January/February 2023, and March/April 2023 issues of Contingencies.
By Eric P. Harding
It should come as no surprise that I—an editor by trade—love the English language.
By Ken Kent
For employers of actuaries, their employees’ membership in actuarial organizations provides clear and tangible benefits. With more than one actuarial organization in the U.S., it is important that employers understand the value and reasoning for supporting their actuaries’ individual, and often, multiple memberships.
May/June 2023
By William Hines
Case studies of when you might need to refuse an assignment or otherwise decline a directive from a principal.
Academy Medicaid Committee leadership and members joined with outside experts to break down the future of Medicaid as states plan to reinitiate Medicaid redeterminations for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).