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Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision depriving people of the right to abortion leaked last month, some have advised deleting period tracking apps to prevent that data from being used to target people seeking abortion care. But it’s useful to distinguish between the security and privacy threats that abortion seekers are actively experiencing now versus threats that may come in the future.

A freedom-preserving proposal for distributing wealth in a post-AI society

The rapid spread of false claims about election fraud has experts worried. While not being promoted by politicians or the media, as similar claims were in 2020, the conspiracy theories are still gaining traction.

The new NATO Innovation Fund started as a way to combat flagging US interest. Now, its staff are scouring Europe to find the companies that could give the alliance the edge in the face of war.

Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.

What history tells us about what comes next, and what to do about it.

Nick Bostrom is perhaps best known for his 2014 book Superintelligence, which explores the existential threat posed to humans by superintelligent A...

Our relationship with the natural world is humanity’s defining challenge. Inspired by ecotopian novels, communities and movements across the world are working to meet it.

In the nearly-500 years since its publication, Thomas More’s Utopia has influenced everything from the thinking of Gandhi to the tech giants of Silicon Valley, writes Tom Hodgkinson.

Do you have bittersweet longings for a utopian future? You may be blessed (or afflicted) with Sehnsucht

America voted for chaos — but we don’t know what real chaos is. Yet.

Public librarians have to be coders, social workers, and book rec machines. They’re irreplaceable.

Dear friends, I wish I had a banquet of hope to put before you, eleven links of uplifting joy, ways to channel any rage or hurt or despair into thoughtful...

Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last week. Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what could've been done differently,

Life-changing choices we may be forced to make if Donald Trump wins

When the German army rolled into France in 1940, the boss of Citroen was never just going to just lie down and surrender

Trump voters have told you they will hurt you. It’s reasonable to believe them.

By prosecuting the website's founders, the government chilled free speech online and ruined lives.

It sounds like an absurd riddle, or perhaps a kindergarten-level math problem: the median male full-time worker earned $314 per week in 1979, while his counterpart at the median in 2018 earned $1,026; who was better off? In fact, the question proves fiendishly difficult, even as its answer lies at the heart of understanding America’s economic progress...

In a column four years ago, I recounted the experience of a friend in academia with the godawful “learning management software” which her institution required for designing exams. She complained that she was trying to create a midterm exam and “blackboard is complete fucking garbage. No intuitive way to break up questions into sections, can’t...

"Well, at least Mussolini made the trains run on time." Except he didn't, of course. Mussolini sought to convince the world that fascism delivered Italy into a technologically efficient order; and the story was part of the dictator's careful (and successful, even) crafting of a mass-media mythology. As Victoria de

article, The Best Answer to Fanaticism--Liberalism

Coping strategies for the next few days — and the next four years.

The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.

From our editor: last week’s US election will affect the future for all of us. Here’s how we’ll cover it.

For the first time in 80 years, Karl Polanyi’s magnum opus has been published in the UK.

A defense industrial base (DIB; also sometimes referred to as a defense industrial and technological base) is the network of organizations, facilities, and resources that provides a government with materials, products, and services for defense purposes (especially the supply of its armed forces). It may include both public and private actors, including some entities that may not exclusively engage in defense-related production, and is often defined in geographical or national terms (e.g., the U.S. or Chinese defense industrial bases). It may also be divided according to the kinds of weapons and equipment produced (one may speak of a "submarine industrial base," for instance, or a "rotary-wing aircraft industrial base," etc.).[1]