Thoreau’s adage “beware of all enterprises that require new clothes” should perhaps be updated to “beware of all enterprises that require venture capital.” Morozov argues that AI itself has much to ...

As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

In an interview in May, the head of the Israeli military intelligence’s targeting division responded to outrage over the civilian death toll in Gaza by boasting that algorithmic surveillance systems ...

The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson, in an apparent assassination this week has led to an outpouring of popular rage against health insurance companies from across the political ...

A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss. How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the ...

For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, ...

Keeping Markets in Their Place I am grateful to the discussants for their thoughtful responses. The two libertarians, Matt Welch and John Tomasi, worry that keeping markets in their place violates ...

Interns gain exposure to the world of magazine editing and publishing by assisting with fact checking, proofreading, evaluating submissions, web and newsletter production, and other engagement and ...

“There is no plot; it’s just Black people living their lives with other Black people on their own planet.” It’s a thing about being a man. To be so stingy, to deny even a sip of yourself. To deny and ...

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Holly Pekowsky is a lawyer in New York . "Seascape" is her first published story.

Many new and creative measures capable of reducing the frequency and violence of war have indeed been tested and distilled in the crucible of this century’s countless and ghastly wars and are ...