Don't Blame AI Labs for What Hackers Do With Their Tools

Silicon Valley’s self-styled futurists build marvelous machines. Their politics, though, recycle discredited ideas. Jill Lepore explains

“They Have Been Denied Their Right to Parent and Protect Her”

Why don’t little magazines like n+1, The Point, and The Drift produce more book reviews? Ross Barkan details an emerging problem

I'm Italian American, but I Don't Celebrate Columbus Day.

How Drones Went From Tools of the Powerful to Weapons of the Masses

Single Orangutan Moms Set up Playdates for Their Kids

Today in Supreme Court History: October 8, 1888

Is Our Age of Mass Incarceration Collapsing?

Dispelling the Myth of Cormac McCarthy as Cowboy-Artist

America’s Hidden Millionaires

After More Than Three Years, Judge Newman's Case Is Transferred To The Eleventh Circuit

What “Hey Jude” by The Beatles is Really About

Whistleblower Frances Haugen Trashes Facebook's Flawed Fact-Checkers

The AI Tipping Point

Sam Altman Says 'Some Bad Things' Will Happen With AI. That Doesn't Mean We Should Stop It.

The "Application for an Extension and the Querulous Opposition Continue the Path of Bikeshedding or … Parkinson's Law of Triviality"

Brendan Carr's Vendetta Against ABC Conflates the 'Public Interest' With Trump's Personal Grievances

Suicide or Suicide Attack (pt 3): New Evidence Points to the Latter

The Money of the Mind

Pigeon Dads Step Up in Tough Times