Technology

Policy

Amazon Is NOT the 'Putin' of Books!

The online powerhouse is being compared to thugs because it wants you to pay less for ebooks.

Nick Gillespie | 6.18.2014 10:30 AM

Science & Technology

The Secret History of the Videophone

The future's not what it used to be.

Jesse Walker | 6.18.2014 9:33 AM

Culture

WTF FBI? Agency Has Huge List of Twitter Slang (and Some of It's Fake)

Here's nine of the weirdest. ALOTBSOL, AMIRITE?

Zenon Evans | 6.17.2014 2:16 PM

Science & Technology

BTCDelta Is Leading the Charge to Bring Bitcoin to Mainstream Consumers

Paul Best | 6.16.2014 5:15 PM

Supreme Court

Supreme Court Rules on Political Speech, Straw Gun Purchases, and Prepares for New Cases

Close decision approves of regulations over third-party gun buys

Scott Shackford | 6.16.2014 2:40 PM

Economics

Obama: 'The World Is Less Violent Than It Has Ever Been.' He's Right!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.12.2014 11:39 AM

Culture

CIA Joins Twitter, Starts Off With a Groaner

Ed Krayewski | 6.10.2014 11:50 AM

Google

Robot Cars Are a Moral Imperative

Ronald Bailey | 6.10.2014 9:47 AM

Culture

Linking Without Consent: The New (Imagined) Tragedy of the Twitter Commons

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.9.2014 4:48 PM

Media Criticism

Experts Fooled by Super Computer or Media Fooled by Bad Test?

Zenon Evans | 6.9.2014 4:32 PM

Immigration

Foreign Scientists, Technology professionals, Engineers, and Mathematicians (STEM workers) Boost Everybody's Wages

Ronald Bailey | 6.9.2014 12:33 PM

Culture

Welcome to the Naked Future

Celebrating the death of privacy

Ronald Bailey | 6.8.2014 10:00 AM

Civil Liberties

LAPD Acquires Two Drones

Paul Detrick | 6.8.2014 9:30 AM

Video Games

Survey Says What We Should All Know by Now: Gamers Aren't Antisocial Shut-ins

Scott Shackford | 6.6.2014 12:45 PM

Economics

Bitcoin Comes to Facebook, Apple, and Dish Network

Paul Best | 6.4.2014 4:37 PM

Policy

Hacker Crackdown

Licensing education innovation

Alyssa Hertig | 5.31.2014 7:00 AM

Economics

Tonight on The Independents: Welcome to the REAL World, Graduates!

Matt Welch | 5.30.2014 3:52 PM

Policy

Iran Spies on U.S. Officials By Facebook Friending Them

Zenon Evans | 5.30.2014 12:05 PM

Culture

Elliot Rodger's 'War on Women' and Toxic Gender Warfare

The Santa Barbara killer wasn't just a misogynist; he was a malignant narcissist.

Cathy Young | 5.29.2014 11:00 AM

Policy

Are Google Cars Self-Driving to a Future of Fewer Cops and Licenses?

Zenon Evans | 5.28.2014 4:21 PM

Policy

Why the FTC's Worries About Online Data Brokers Are Overblown

Peter Suderman | 5.28.2014 1:33 PM

Culture

Techno-Panic Self-Parody Alert

A member of the "Fox News Medical A-Team" attacks Facebook and video games.

Jesse Walker | 5.28.2014 12:09 PM

Foreign Policy

Study Finds More Info Could Lead to Less Support for Intervention; Slate Depressed

Ed Krayewski | 5.21.2014 1:40 PM

Politics

How Raising the Minimum Wage Destroys Jobs

Computer screens are replacing workers at restaurants and stores.

Ira Stoll | 5.19.2014 4:30 PM

Science & Technology

Missed Maker Faire? Here Are Two Cool, New 3D-Printed Products

Zenon Evans | 5.19.2014 3:50 PM

Politics

Net Neutrality: Don't Let the Nipplegate People (FCC) Regulate the Internet!

Nick Gillespie | 5.19.2014 9:10 AM

Politics

Jared Polis Became the First Congressman to Accept Bitcoin Donations After FEC's Approval

Alex Manning | 5.11.2014 1:00 PM

Science & Technology

Snapchat Settles With FTC Over Its Users Being Idiots

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.8.2014 5:02 PM

Civil Liberties

How Maryland Cops' Plan to Live-Tweet a Prostitution Sting Backfired

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.7.2014 11:43 AM

Science & Technology

Tech Companies Increasingly Refusing to Keep Government Searches Secret

Big firms join Twitter in letting customers know about subpoenas

Scott Shackford | 5.1.2014 6:05 PM

Politics

Classes Dismissed

Web ed crackdown

Zenon Evans | 4.30.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Sneaky Apps

NSA in your pocket

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Today at SCOTUS: Do Cops Need a Warrant to Search Your Cellphone When You're Under Arrest?

Damon Root | 4.29.2014 8:10 AM

Policy

Is It Time to Welcome Our New Robot Overlords?

From online shopping to drone surveillance, it's a brave new world out there.

A. Barton Hinkle | 4.28.2014 12:00 PM

Nanny State

Beezin: The Awesome New Fake Teen Drug Panic Involving Lipbalm and Eyelids

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.25.2014 11:22 AM

Policy

Peoria Mayor Thinks Outrage Over City's Raid on Twitter Parodist Is Everybody's Fault Except His

Scott Shackford | 4.23.2014 4:05 PM

Policy

Supreme Court Juggles Copyright Law and Modern Technology in Aereo Case

Damon Root | 4.23.2014 1:37 PM

Civil Liberties

Twitter's Take on #MyNYPD Not Exactly What NYPD Hoped for

On Tuesday, @NYPDnews asked people on Twitter to post photos of themselves with politce officers, using the hashtag #MyNYPD. You can probably imagine how this went ....

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.23.2014 11:03 AM

Politics

Promise and Peril in Tech Approaches To Stopping Child Sex Trafficking

From surveying to surveilling to spreading information, one organization is showing promise and raising concern.

Zenon Evans | 4.22.2014 4:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Reddit Reprimands Its Technology Forum for Censorship

Zenon Evans | 4.22.2014 4:20 PM

Civil Liberties

The Internet Black Market Just Got Its Own Google

Zenon Evans | 4.22.2014 12:53 PM

Politics

Peoria Mayor Sends Police to Track Down Twitter Parodist

Scott Shackford | 4.18.2014 10:33 AM

Policy

Los Angeles Wants You To Be Its Surveillance Spook

Zenon Evans | 4.16.2014 2:26 PM