Society

In theory, yes; in practice, perhaps soon.

It's hard to argue that providing a pipe constitutes a speech act.

Only when necessary to protect five basic internet rights.

An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any fiel…

Despite lots of fretting, the evidence for one is incredibly flimsy.

What they’ve found directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s conclusions.

Wage theft costs workers billions, and a new tool may help them avoid sticky-fingered employers in New York State.

In a lecture given in 1924, German mathematician David Hilbert introduced the idea of the paradox of the Grand Hotel, which might

Yesterday, there was yet another school shooting on a college campus, this time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Momentous week of GOP debate, Trump's arrest gets "horse race" coverage when the story's not about an election, but authoritarianism.

Soon, around 70% of jobs in Washington state will require some education beyond high school. Yet the rate of homegrown high school grads earning credentials here is on the decline, a new report says. …

A developer used widely available AI tools to generate anti-Russian tweets and articles. The project is intended to highlight how cheap and easy it has become to create propaganda at scale.

Imagining the future we want is the first step towards creating it, says Rob Hopkins – time traveller and imagination activist

An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us

Last month, the state Elections Division brought its voter suppression to another level.

I’ve written about this topic before. It is an important topic and I want to raise it again. Boards often discuss CEO performance without really knowing how things work inside the company. And CEOs often have very little visibility to how they are doing and what the board thinks about their performance. When you work […]

Don’t tell us who’s going to win our vote, help us decide whom to vote for

The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies.

Now that the 2024 election campaigns have ramped up in earnest (absurdly & obscenely more than a year before the actual election),

Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward appeared at an event linked to Matt Shea and religious extremists who have made inroads in the Inland Northwest.

STANFORD, CA—In the results of a new study published in the Journal Of Woe, researchers from Stanford University revealed Tuesday that “truly being seen” still ranks among the worst possible experiences in human existence. “We’ve found conclusive evidence that realizing somebody has managed to look past your…

“The Blind Side” reinforces insidious stereotypes about what Black people owe white people.

The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.

In a terrifying summer, a search for safety

Habitual and nonhabitual social media users respond differently to likes, shares and comments.

Netflix's most-watched original movie is a microcosm of the worst impulses of the streamer’s blockbuster cinema.

The virtues of the market and the deficiencies of central planning have become common sense for many socialist economists, both in the capitalist countries and in those of ‘actually existing socialism’. Some spirited defences have recently been made of non-market forms of economic co-ordination, particularly by Ernest Mandel, . . .

Was Joe Mauri playing everyone all along?

Companies aren’t asking for your feedback. They’re begging you for data.

Are the two diametrically opposed? Or does one emerge from the other?