Society

The Washington Post spent months determining how many children have been exposed to gun violence during school hours since the Columbine High massacre in 1999.

The e-bike is ideal for moving snipers and anti-tank weapons quickly and quietly around the battlefield.

Unravelling the thread of right-wing fashion brands and how hate spreads online.

Fifty years ago, America was at a breaking point. Here's what I learned then that might help us through today's turmoil.

As Puget Sound becomes denser, some community groups have unusual authority to veto land-use decisions within their neighborhoods, but won't for long.

How a science fiction genre turned into a radical social movement. Join the revolution!

If every retailer shared supply-chain assets, we could cut 9 trillion transportation miles a year, have 90,000 fewer trucks on the road, and massively reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.

Sixty years after Seattle's Century 21 Exposition, world's fairs have largely fallen out of fashion in the U.S.

The Starship company has done what Boston Dynamics and others haven’t: designed a robot that’s met with joy instead of fear.

Malcolm X's short-lived life left an indelible mark on every social movement that followed till this day.

I never thought I would miss the 2000s, but here we are. During the era, the 2000s didn’t feel like it had a specific flavor. Like, at least to me, the 90s had a distinct identity. The 2000s …

A sopabox speaker addresses a small crowd, presenting himself an “American American,” or what Tucker Carlson would call a “legacy American.”...

With the Supreme Court poised to rip away a constitutional right that’s been the law of the land for nearly half a century by overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s time for the gloves to come off in the en…

Tech journalism is evolving, including how it reports on and critiques tech companies. At the same time, tech journalists should still serve as bullshit detectors and hype slayers. The fo…

A Legislation Model For New Countries And Cities

Max Tabarrok has an interesting new idea for governance, Interland: Interland takes the intersection of the law codes of a large group of nations. This will produce a minimal reasonable set of laws which is highly resistant to lobbying and growth. Anyone who wants to add a new agricultural subsidy, building height limit, or immigration […]

The two-part series examines Niall Ferguson's six principles of prosperity.

The global credit card rivals maintain a strikingly permissive relationship with companies that have been accused of fraud. For one of Mastercard’s top executives, that relationship went even further. A BuzzFeed News investigation.

Google's Russian subsidiary plans to file for bankruptcy after authorities seized its bank account, making it impossible to pay staff and vendors, but free services including search and YouTube will keep operating, a Google spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Carol Anderson explains how “whiteness as citizenship” drives violence in America.

There is a lot to appreciate in the recently published “Notice of Funding Opportunity” (NOFO) by the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA). It is arguably the first federal government proposal that seeks to promote infrastructure policies focused on the future, rather than the usual subsidizing “good enough for now” access. That means that the American government, or at least part of it, finally recognizes what appears obvious: that the future of internet access is in fiber.