Review: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Underscores How Technology Supports Freedom
According to Grok, Robert Heinlein's novel reminds us that even a supercomputer can have a heart—or at least a well-programmed sense of humor.
According to Grok, Robert Heinlein's novel reminds us that even a supercomputer can have a heart—or at least a well-programmed sense of humor.
When does a sufficiently advanced algorithm start to mimic our conception of God?
While the governor framed the legislation as necessary to protect Floridians from "the global elite," he's the real authoritarian.
Jesse Singal questions the science of "gender-affirming care."
Introducing Reason's artificial intelligence issue
No technology exists today to enable railroads to comply with the state's diktat, which villainizes a mode of transportation that is actually quite energy efficient.
The government always has seemingly good reasons to sidestep people’s rights.
AI developer Andrew Mayne explains why technology could create more jobs and lead to unprecedented economic growth.
Calls from the left and right to mimic European speech laws bring the U.S. to a crossroads between robust First Amendment protections and rising regulation.
This new school-to-parent pipeline allows parents to micromanage yet another aspect of their kids' lives.
AI developer Andrew Mayne explains why technology could create more jobs and lead to unprecedented economic growth.
Instead of trusting parents to manage their families, lawmakers from both parties prefer to empower the Nanny State.
Local hostility to free speech may become a global problem.
Weather and climate disaster losses as a percentage of U.S. GDP have not increased between 1990 and 2019, a new study finds.
One hundred Nobel laureates agree: The campaign against biotech-enhanced golden rice is a "crime against humanity."
The American Sunlight Project contends that researchers are being silenced by their critics.
Net neutrality rules have been instituted and repealed multiple times in the past 15 years, and yet internet use has thrived in each scenario.
The News2Share cofounder is revolutionizing news coverage.
Plus: Masking protesters, how Google Search got so bad, Columbia's anti-apartheid protests of the '80s, and more...
Science can detect increasingly small particles of plastic in our air and water. That doesn't mean it's bad for you.
Did Elizabeth Warren help cause hundreds of layoffs in Massachusetts?
Plus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.
Plus: Homework liberation in Poland, Orthodox rabbi tells students to flee Columbia, toddler anarchy, and more...
Banning companies for doing business with China is a bad path to start down.
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
"This bill would basically allow the government to institute a spy draft," warns head of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Having someone take your fast-food order on a virtual call may seem strange, but the benefits speak for themselves.
Ethan Blevins of the Pacific Legal Foundation explains why. I myself have made similar arguments.
"I am not in the newsroom," the embattled NPR chieftain said over and over again.
Plus: Europoor discourse, NPR's woke CEO, a forgotten tech panic, and more...
Science can detect increasingly small particles of plastic in our air and water. That doesn't mean it's bad for you.
"Profound irreparable harm flows from the Act's chilling of adults' access to protected sexual expression," the filing reads.
The author of The Anxious Generation argues that parents, schools, and society must keep kids off of social media.
An interview with Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski.
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
The push to regulate social media content infringes on rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
Chasing Seattle's shadow, Minneapolis' new ride-share wage law threatens to derail the gig economy.
Fight back through better information and discourse, not by empowering the government.
Kentucky's governor signed a law last week that could require porn sites to ask for users' government IDs before allowing access to adult material.
If adopted by the Supreme Court, Prof. Candeub's approach would be a grave menace to freedom of speech.
A Section 702 reauthorization moving through Congress could actually weaken privacy protections.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
Teens who use social media heavily also spend the most in-person time with friends.
A new movement promoting scientific, technological, and economic solutions to humanity's problems emerges.
Apple's pricey new headset ends up feeling clunky.
Ethan Mollick, Wharton School professor and author of Co-Intelligence, discusses AI's likely effects on business, art, and truth seeking on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.