Harvesting the Sun
A new generation of farmers may soon reap crops and electricity.
Columns
Two Burritos for Breakfast
I don't need mandatory food labels to tell me McDonald's isn't health food. And neither do you.
Chipotle Treats Customers Like Idiots
The burrito chain stokes bogus GMO fears and tries to profit from anti-biotech propaganda.
A New Life for Old Food
How technology reduces waste by getting excess edibles to those who can still use them.
Markets vs. Drought
Is parched California fertile ground for property rights and prices for water?
The Fight for the Millennial Voter
Change happens on the battlefield of ideas, not as the result of elections.
Better Government Through Crowdsourcing
Can Americans' collective wisdom solve our collective problems?
The End of Farming
Factories with lab-grown milk and cultured meat will replace industrial farms
Unchecked Checkpoints
A federal appeals court gives a pass to unconstitutional harassment by border cops.
Big Data, Big Business, and Big Government
How bureaucrats are keeping people in the dark about the Export-Import Bank
Begging to Die
The curiously circumscribed suicide right recognized by Canada's Supreme Court.
Cameras in the Court
Will allowing recording devices unleash the Supremes' inner Judge Judys?
Taking Comics to the People
Artists are using new platforms to bypass gatekeepers and grow the comic book industry.
The Online Sales Tax Cash Grab
As states lunge for dot-com money, Congress threatens to get into the act.
Helpful Hackers vs. College Regulators
Why are state governments cracking down on innovative coding academies?
Charlie Hebdo in the Dock
Despite its stand against the terrorist's veto, France treats offensive words and images as crimes.
Let Slip the Robots of War
Lethal autonomous weapon systems might be more moral than human soldiers.
Regulatory Robophobia
We don't need a federal commission to govern things that go beep in the night.
Torture As an Absolute Wrong
If waterboarding works, does that make it morally acceptable?
The Quantified Citizen
Engineering happiness might sound good, but it will leave us all less free.
Screwed by Seniors
The people expected to pay for Social Security and Medicare can't afford it.
District of Cannabis
How will Congress respond to marijuana legalization in the nation's capital?
Big Sugar Leaves a Bitter Aftertaste
It's time to end the sugar industry's corrupt sweetheart deals.
The Congress That Cried Wolf
It's time for lawmakers to stop abusing the emergency-spending loophole.
'Enough, For All, Forever'
A report from New York's mixed up, anti-capitalist People's Climate March
Stop Complaining About That Flying Car. You Have Amazon.
Getting stuff gets more awesome every day.
Ebola, Smoking, and Mission Creep at the CDC
Controlling contagious diseases is just one of many items on the agency's to-do list.
Foreign Aid Is a Failure
Throwing good money at bad governments makes poor countries worse off.
Obama's Dumb, Rash, and Unilateral War
Don't buy the president's lame excuses for attacking ISIS without congressional approval.
Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?
The pitfalls of artificial intelligence
Meet the New Warm Fuzzy Payday Lenders
A better approach for a controversial industry
Why Don't Americans Save Their Money?
We must kill Social Security in order to save retirement.
Government Failure Is Baked In
Welcome to a world of bird flu, corrupt contractors, and glitchy websites.
Let's Play God!
Gene drives could be a powerful new tool to manage wild ecosystems.
The Surprising Power of Subtitles
From Jesus on a bed sheet in Tagalog to Rasputin rapping in Ukrainian
Don't Put Meth Moms in Jail
Tennessee's criminalization of drug use during pregnancy is bad law and bad science.
Criminal Immigrants?
Americans believe newcomers "legal and illegal" are more likely to commit crimes. Research suggests the opposite is true.
Soylent Cuisine
The trendy new food substitute is made by people and for people-not of people.
Young, Bummed, and in Debt
The labor market looks bleak for millennials. Why aren't they angrier?
A Lethal Injection of Reality
Medicalizing executions helps maintain support for the death penalty.
The Crony Capitalism Machine
The Export-Import Bank is inefficient and immoral.
