The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."
A Supreme Court case could determine whether Americans own their digital data—or whether the government can take that information without a warrant.
Earlier this year, state Rep. Laurel Libby made a post criticizing trans women in women's sports. Her refusal to apologize has cost Libby her right to speak on the House floor and vote on legislation.
A new executive order would keep the Corporation for Public Broadcasting alive while telling it to cut off the two biggest public broadcasting networks. Get ready for a legal fight.
The New York Times columnist warns that digital life may be eroding the cultural foundations needed to sustain meaning, family, and community.
Plus: Growth forecasts slashed, Pravda time, fentanyl seizures, and more...
Congress just approved a new online censorship scheme under the auspices of thwarting revenge porn and AI-generated "nonconsensual intimate visual depictions."
A scam that uses AI to “enroll” in community colleges to pocket student aid has skyrocketed in the Golden State and across the nation.
Export controls on advanced chips and AI models hold back innovation and hurt American businesses.
The penalty amounts to a "multibillion-dollar tariff," a Meta spokesperson says.
Lidar technology is revealing that the Mayan civilization was more complex and interconnected than previously thought.
Live by your own rule, Ruhle!
Hundreds of thousands of miles of fences ensnare and sometimes kill wild animals. GPS technology offers an alternative.
Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize.
Google has lost its second major antitrust case against the Department of Justice, threatening the tech giant's free-to-consumer business model.
The president has launched a multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.
The boy and his mother are now suing the school district and its officials to protect students' right to free expression.
Support for suppressing "violent content" has also dropped.
The feds are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence across spy agencies. What could go wrong?
The dinosaur ancestors of birds laid blue, brown, and speckled eggs as far back as 150 million years ago.
The secretary of state, who aims to "liberate American speech," nevertheless wants to deport U.S. residents for expressing opinions that offend him.
It's not to further their careers, says Motherhood on Ice author Marcia C. Inhorn.
Mark Zuckerberg's donations haven't stopped the Federal Trade Commission from going after his company.
Nope, but it does show how complicated the issue is.
Yes, the climate is warming. But, despite what you may have heard, we can deal with it.
Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch said she doesn’t have to watch Adolescence to understand the show’s themes.
Is the small-government Democrat beefing up state power?
"I said now that they're banning it, I want to join, just because they're telling me I can't," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
How John McClaughry and Karl Hess fought to decentralize power—one from inside the system, one ever further from it
Next up are woolly mammoths, dodos, and Tasmanian wolves.
A large new study finds smartphone ownership positively correlated with multiple measures of well being in 11- to 13-year-old kids.
Know how much the law does—and doesn’t—protect your privacy rights.
The Latvian Oscar winner was rendered on a free and open-source 3D graphic engine.
A new global survey reveals a stark decline in Americans' support for free speech as the Trump administration tightens its grip on expression.
The president seems optimistic. It's not clear why.
"Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works," said Jankowicz.
An economist explores how a stable and relatively just legal order emerged in medieval Japan.
Innovation, basic research, and economic growth do not rely on federal science funding.
A new meta-analysis finds “no significant effects of social media abstinence interventions on positive affect, negative affect, or life satisfaction.”
Popular encryption apps are probably secure if government officials rely on them.
Economic historian Phil Magness on the real history of tariffs and why Trump is so wrong about them.
Our manufacturing output, even adjusted for inflation, is near all-time highs.
Cultivated meat isn't challenging slaughtered meat anytime soon. But states keep trying to restrict competition.
The past three administrations have tried and failed to implement binding regulations on risky research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
And you shouldn't be panicked into doing it either.
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