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Here’s what the tech that Hollywood actors are scared of can really do.

History shows how to stave it off.

CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?

The U.S. is returning to a tired old playbook: If at first you fail to make something a universal right, try making it an employee benefit.

Annie Ernaux on the malaise of the grocery store

Things are finally looking up for the American worker. Why does the government see that as a crisis?

Machines in coastal city of Ako, are located in an area that experts say is vulnerable to a future powerful earthquake

Ryan Busse once worked for a major gun-maker. He now warns about the danger of growing radicalization in the industry.

When Willem Arondeus said, “Let it be known, homosexuals aren’t cowards’’, on the eve of his execution in 1943, he was speaking for himself and countless others who gave and risked their lives to end the tyranny and oppression that the LGBTQ community faced under Nazi rule. It is only in recent years that their…

Most rights are based in statute, but dozens — such as rights to same-sex marriage, search warrants and Miranda warnings — are based on judicial rulings that the Supreme Court can overturn and that current justices have questioned some aspect of.

New tools make it possible to detect hidden manipulation of maps.

In today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape, one topic has emerged as a pressing concern for humanity: the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As a former Google executive, we recognize the magnitude of this issue and the urgent need to address it. In this article, we delve into the profound implications of AI and its potential […]

On the myth of wilderness

World without faith by John Beevers, 1935, H. Hamilton edition, in English

Beevers, John; World Without Faith

Instead of writing about the need to electrify everything, Nate Johnson is now doing that work himself as an apprentice electrician.

From a November discussion on the Eyes Left podcast, between Mike Prysner, an Iraq War veteran, and Mansoor Adayfi, a former detainee at Guantánamo Bay. mansoor adayfi: As you know, Guantánamo was created out of the legal zone, out of the legal system. Torture was the mechanism of Guantánamo. Torture, abuse, and experimenting on prisoners. […]

The candidacy of Ron DeSantis represents the ugliest stage of the War on Terror's veterans entering the American political area.

CNN reports that federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording from a 2021 meeting revealing that former President Donald Trump retained a classified Pentagon document about a potential atta…

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