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Only if buttressed with smart policy, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue in their new book, "Abundance"

On the Collapse of Objectivism and the Need to Hold Tension

Cutting red tape is a social justice issue.

Friday’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.

Snow White built Disney. Why is the studio screwing up her story so badly now?

Our Covid mistakes did lasting damage. No one wants to talk about it.

Even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault, they overestimated democratic resilience. What is America now, and what comes next?

A lawyer during the day, Trevor Mead slips into his luminous dinosaur costume after 5 p.m. and turns Dolores Park into Jurassic Park.

The Montana hospital that fired Dr. Thomas C. Weiner turned over thousands of pages of documents, but members of the board say they were unaware of them.

The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.

Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

The inspection comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that drugs made at the Glenmark Pharmaceuticals plant accounted for an outsized share of U.S. recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly and could harm people.

It's time to escape the Burnout Machine.

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

I’m surprised that you’re surprised

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

I've lost count of how many times I've been cornered at conferences by men in meticulously over-casual $300 t-shirts, evangelizing their startups with religious fervor. "We're DISRUPTING the entire industry," they insist, with the insufferable confidence of someone who believes their "Uber for X" app constitutes a revolution on par

The Netherlands' parliament on Tuesday approved a series of motions calling on the government to reduce dependence on U.S. software companies, including by creating a cloud services platform under Dutch control.

Marine Corps veterans are among those who have pushed back and received warnings for slightly subversive replies to the Office of Personnel Management.

‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’

We cannot navigate the current moment using existing political frames or received wisdom.

Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

In the last three decades, youth culture has moved from a deep suspicion of commerce to a passionate defense of anti-anti-commerce to an entire generation of "creatives” who leverage the commercial market… to do even more commerce In the 1990s, there was a single ethical principle at the heart of

National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.

An emerging parallel economy peddles purity, health and fitness to promote wellbeing – and a political worldview.

Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.