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But don't get it twisted, there's no such thing as a safe one, either

A journey into the Republican soul in 2023.

Part one of two: Westward expansion and the American System’s unexpected triumph.

This is part three of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here.The ad-tech industry is incredibly profitable, raking in hundreds of billions of dollars every year by spying on us. These companies have tendrils that...

Though “discrimination” is a central theme of our modern world, it is closely connected to many other powerful related concepts. So we might wonder: what is the essential motive or passion driving attitudes and behaviors here?

In a Memorial Day reflection, historian Heather Cox Richardson highlights a pamphlet distributed by the US War Department to Army

Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”

This graphic visualizes the world’s aging population, showing data for every country and territory around the world.

There are 118 Republicans and 100 Democrats in the House willing to vote for the right deal. Will they have the courage to push it through over partisan objections? And what could such an alliance …

Twitter has withdrawn from the EU's Code of Practice on online disinformation -- setting it on a collision course with the bloc's regulators.

Wrestling explains it.

Digital payments have become a ubiquitous part of our lives, and with this increased usage comes an ..

You've probably seen these terms on social media recently — but do you know what they actually mean?

Loss of taste/smell and post-exertional malaise were the top two symptoms.

We’ll never, as a nation, take on the ultra-rich if millions of Americans identify with them.

“The key takeaway from our analysis is that remote work is shaping up to massively disrupt the value of commercial office real estate,” they wrote.

A sign of the maturity of cyber ops, the Department of Defense has recognized and defined what "expeditionary cyberspace operations" are.

The leak contains 100GB of confidential data from Tesla.

As negotiations between the White House and Republicans stall, economists and markets are worried Congress won’t act in time, which could trigger a financial crisis.

Nothing is free, nothing is allowed, if someone doesn't profit. On the freedom to sleep under the stars, lead a self-determined life, and what that even means.

The theorist’s magnum opus wasn’t a blueprint for dictators—it was an ode to institutional constraints on leaders.

An expert in computing responds to Tara Isabella Burton’s “I Know Thy Works.”

Read a new short story by Tara Isabella Burton about a dinner party, an accident, and the slipperiness of ethics.

Social media distorts the mental models we build of the world, degrading our collective intelligence and our ability to make good decisions.

We’ve certainly been talking a lot about the “AI Doomers” who insist that AI is all too likely to destroy humanity. However, even people who aren’t fully on board with the existential threat of AI …

How do current federal individual income tax rates and brackets compare historically?