Technology

Intelligence, Artificial and Otherwise: Our Ruling Class

Intelligence, Artificial and Otherwise: Our Ruling Class Intelligence, Artificial and Otherwise: Our Ruling Class

With Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dec 28, 2021 / Doug Henwood

Elizabeth Holmes

The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care

What might have happened if taxpayers—rather than investors—had directly funded Theranos’s blood-prick research?

Dec 22, 2021 / James Ledbetter

Medical Translation

Medical Translation Without Trust Medical Translation Without Trust

Finding a translator in medical settings was difficult enough before the pandemic, but now the solutions come with additional problems.

Nov 3, 2021 / StudentNation / Zoya Qureshi

Kate Orff

Why Ecology Is the Infrastructure of the Future Why Ecology Is the Infrastructure of the Future

Landscape architect Kate Orff says we must restore and harness natural systems to protect ourselves from the worsening climate crisis.

Oct 15, 2021 / Q&A / Laura Flanders

Walgreens covid vaccine site

Relying on Public-Private Partnerships Has Weakened America’s Pandemic Response Relying on Public-Private Partnerships Has Weakened America’s Pandemic Response

It’s happening all too often: A private company receives public funds for the public good, only to act in the best interests of its shareholders instead.

Sep 30, 2021 / Abdullah Shihipar

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

The 24-Hour Outrage Cycle The 24-Hour Outrage Cycle

It’s a well-oiled machine. 

Sep 28, 2021 / Tom Tomorrow

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When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens? When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens?

The initial decision by OnlyFans to ban porn illustrates how ostensibly legal online sex work is, in reality, criminalized.

Sep 6, 2021 / Emily Coombes

The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic

The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic

For years, Rob Wallace warned that industrial agriculture could cause deadly outbreaks at a global scale. It made him an exile in his field.

Aug 30, 2021 / Feature / Eamon Whalen

DEFENSE D'AFFICHER

Two Cheers for the Free Press Two Cheers for the Free Press

And why Democratic attempts to cure excesses through censorship are not only wrong but stupid.

Jul 29, 2021 / Column / Benjamin Moser

A booth at the 2019 Hannover Messe industrial technology trade fair in Lower Saxony, Hannover, on March 31 shows a robot with a white arm. The robot art is against a white background with the words

How Do We Prepare for an AI Future? How Do We Prepare for an AI Future?

Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. How do we ensure that’s a good thing?

Jul 26, 2021 / John Feffer

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