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If the book has a main character, it's the Falcon 1 rocket.
There's a good chance they haven't been preventing the spread of COVID, and they might even be counterproductive.
Industrial policy is the wrong answer to a problem that mostly doesn't exist.
A new antitrust suit targets third-party seller agreements.
A co-author of the article that Rochelle Walensky cited says outdoor settings probably account for "substantially less than 1 percent" of infections.
Rather than let students weigh crypto costs and benefits on their own, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claims to know best.
Plus: Protesters increasingly hit with "civil disorder" charges, why cryptocurrency prices are falling, and more...
Though Trump is gone, the desire to bend the internet toward partisan goals is alive and well.
We expect British royals to favor muzzling commoners, but too many lawmakers feel the same way.
Ignore the hype: Latin American immigration is (still) the city’s greatest strength.
Calling a classmate a racist slur on Snapchat is offensive. It’s also protected speech.
Plus: Three things that aren't as bad as they seem, Tennessee bans certain treatments for transgender minors, and more...
It's a working model for non-state governance in cyberspace that is vastly preferable to government control of social media.
The Senate’s Endless Frontier Act aims to spur innovation but leaves out immigration reform.
And it's already sold out.
Rochelle Walensky's gloss is puzzling in light of the evidence presented in the systematic review on which she relied.
A member of the board (and a Cato Institute vice president) defends the controversial decision to kick the former president off the social media platform.
Police were finally able to catch the serial killer using DNA genealogy databases—violating many innocent people's constitutional right to privacy.
Ledell Lee was put to death in 2017 for a killing he likely didn't commit.
A conversation with Whole Earth Catalog founder, Merry Prankster, and woolly mammoth de-extinctionist Stewart Brand.
Medical breakthroughs mean we will never again suffer through diseases like the novel coronavirus—if politicians will get out of the way.
Facebook can't kill, jail, or tax you. It can only stop you from posting on Facebook.
"It's very obvious that nobody involved in [the bill] consulted a First Amendment lawyer," says TechFreedom's Berin Szóka.
"At the time of Mr. Trump's posts, there was a clear, immediate risk of harm."
Plus: The challenges of free speech on Twitter, the case against baseball bailouts, and more...
The upsides and the possible downsides of transmissible vaccines .
Despite its victory, the State Department is insisting that a court order to allow the files to spread is not yet technically in effect.
The goal is to drastically reduce the population of disease-carrying bloodsuckers.
Two years after California banned them, the ATF was complaining that 41 percent of guns they came across in L.A. were the very guns already banned
States had been trying to stop the Feds from loosening their hold on certain software, but the Appeals Court says they don't have that power
The Biden administration is manufacturing a market failure to justify spending $100 billion on municipal broadband and other government-run internet projects.
Silence isn't violence, and recusing your company from political discourse, as Basecamp and Coinbase have done, is a perfectly valid line to draw.
Say what you will about the U.S., but its financial reporting rules are at least consistent.
A new bill repurposes the war on terror's pro-snitching mantra by requiring that tech companies share user data with the federal government.
"There's this growing gap between what's on paper and what is enforceable in law," says Kareem Shaya, the co-founder of Open Source Defense.
A 2018 Supreme Court decision was supposed to protect your location data from federal snooping. That’s not what happened.
Plus: An anti-tech crusader could be joining the FTC, threats to free speech at Columbia University, and more...
By invoking the magic of good intentions, the Times justifies the U.S. acting like Russia and China.
From "power poses" to the self-esteem movement to implicit bias tests, we want to believe one small tweak will solve our problems, says Jesse Singal.
"The notion that a school can discipline a student for that kind of...non-harassing expression is contrary to our First Amendment tradition."
From "power poses" to the self-esteem movement to implicit bias tests, Americans are suckers for bad ideas from psychologists.
We already know how to affordably expand connectivity; government-run networks ain’t it.
Democrats never miss an opportunity to rail against big corporations. Yet they're eagerly subsidizing their big corporate friends.
A moot case about Trump blocking tweets leads to concerns that tech companies have too much control over speech.