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Read our new report on The Unintended Consequences Of Internet Regulation » Over the last decade or so, there’s been a growing chorus of people insisting (misleadingly) that the internet is a “wild…

Every week, one in eight Americans places a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined. The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven

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Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.

How AI might be worse at our jobs, but still take them

Felicia said she'd rather find a job with a lower salary than keep going to the office five days a week after getting used to a hybrid schedule.

Record spending on manufacturing construction heralds a made-in-the-U.S. rebound, stoked by green-energy incentives and concerns about foreign supply chains.

Scammers last year stole about $11m from unsuspecting consumers by fabricating the voices of loved ones, doctors and attorneys requesting money

After joining NATO, all eyes are on the Nordic country. Here’s what makes it unique.

We typically deter crime via a chance of punishment. Someone who commits a crime might get found out, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced. So the amount of deterrence should increase with the chance of that sentence give committing a crime, with the size of the punishment implied by the sentence, and with the delay in that punishment relative to when the crime was committed.

Washington is still impacted by the 1933 decision, which brought the West from the frontier period into a new, modern century.

There’s one thing we hear repeatedly today, and it’s that “America is more divided than ever.”  That’s because much of the Western world is caught in a

Eight thinkers weigh in on the latest — and most important — way Trump has blown all the rules up.

While fear of a “wage-price spiral” has eased, the Federal Reserve’s course presumes job losses and risks a recession. Some see less painful remedies.

American critics chastise Europeans’ rejection of fossil fuels. But Europe is winning the bet.

KOCHI, Japan (Kyodo) -- High school vocational students across Japan have been starting up projects in collaboration with local governments and busine

Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.

Today on TAP: If everything breaks just right, democracy will still take a long time to heal.

Polarization among the public and politicians threatens to undermine educational progress made over the past few decades.

With a Kickstarter campaign now underway for the audio edition of his new book, 'Red Team Blues,' Cory Doctorow shares the mistakes of his past campaigns—and why it's all worth it.

Seemingly complex and sophisticated econometric modeling often fails to take into account common sense and observable reality.

Overall, these layoffs are a body blow to diversity in tech, not just slowing but actually reversing hard-won gains.