Privacy activists say we should be alarmed by the rise of automated facial recognition surveillance. Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan says it's time to embrace the end of privacy as we know it.
Andrew I. Friedson says they flattened the curve. Lyman Stone disagrees.
The 1961 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower foreshadowed the current government's response to COVID-19.
Apple and Google's Bluetooth-based app would reportedly be voluntary and anonymous. Privacy advocates say we should accept nothing less.
Urbanist Joel Kotkin says the pandemic will accelerate America's urban decline. Richard Florida is "100 percent convinced" NYC will be just fine.
People around the world are working together in unprecedented ways to help their neighbors and produce critical medical supplies.
Trump isn't absolved of his own failures in confronting the pandemic, but the WHO's response to the coronavirus destroyed much of its credibility and damaged the field of public health.
They trade tips and manuals through a decentralized information-sharing network. Biomedical technicians say it's the fastest and easiest way to get life-saving information.
Power-seeking public officials thrive on our fear.
A global pandemic has done what 30 years of internet manifestoes never accomplished: a mass migration into our screens.
DIY manufacturers scramble to reduce shortages, as public health officials send mixed messages about the efficacy of broader use.
The agency's emphasis on caution over speed led to needless suffering and loss of life long before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The contagious spread of information is in a race against the contagious spread of coronavirus.
Impossible Foods says that animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change. Instead of trying to pass laws to ban meat, it's providing tasty, plant-based alternatives.
The disease will leave behind a residue of laws, spending, and precedents for future government actions.
American whisky and wine drinkers are being punished for trying to amicably trade what they have for what they want.
In West Virginia, advocates have been fighting to pass the Tim Tebow Act since 2011. They're on the verge of scoring a partial legislative victory.
Land use regulation is making cities unaffordable. In an unfettered market, how would Americans choose to live?
Raíces Venezolanas, or Venezuelan Roots, gives household items and a heavy dose of moral support to immigrant families showing up in South Florida.
Until we start denuding the Oval Office, we will continue getting the royals we deserve.
Assembly Bill 5 was designed to constrain the growth of the so-called gig economy. In practice, it's closing off opportunities
A ballot measure would create a regulatory framework for recreational sales.
Clayton Christensen, father of the theory of "disruptive innovation," predicted that half of high school classes would be delivered online by 2018. What went wrong?
Discredited 18th-century economist Thomas Malthus still haunts the environmental debate.
The euthanasia campaign may be necessary to prevent the spread of the Newcastle disease, but bird owners say that it's being carried out in a cruel manner.
Media theorist Marshall McLuhan's work best explains how the world changed in the 2010s—and what we can expect in the decade ahead.
"Somehow we've decided that the one job in America that gets the most job protection is the one where you actually get nuclear weapons," says the Cato Institute's Gene Healy.
Joey Mucha wanted to convert his warehouse into a restaurant, bar, and arcade. Then community activists intervened.
Los Angeles County saw disease outbreaks and 1,000 homeless deaths last year.
West Hollywood's Lowell Farms Cafe serves food, drinks, and marijuana.
A bachelor's degree isn't a prerequisite to a satisfying career—it's a costly way of signaling the fortitude to withstand suffering.
California is turning to tech solution to clear bureaucratic hurdles.
Encryption, other privacy measures, and decentralization have made the protest movement possible.
Deepfakes don't pose a novel threat, and they have many exciting applications that would be stymied by legal restrictions.
Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are in the federal government's crosshairs, but the technology necessary to undermine their dominance may already exist.
"If we lose...we will lose a generation."
History provides a window into how abortion bans will play out if re-instituted.
Nixon's pursuit of draft-dodgers and pot smokers fueled the communist ideology it was trying to contain
Obama denied him clemency. Will Trump set him free?
The claim that 100,000 to 300,000 underage people were being sex trafficked in the United States was used in effort to destroy Backpage.com's founders.
Elizabeth Warren says her "ultra-millionaire tax" will raise $2.75 trillion. History says otherwise.
The government's latest moral crusade shields traffickers, empowers pimps, and undermines free speech online.
"All we want to do is save some young people from dying needlessly," says former Gov. Ed Rendell, who's on the board of Safehouse, the nation's first supervised injection site to operate out in the open.
Sanders no longer favors government takeover of "the major means of production." But his four-decade quest for political revolution continues.
Michael Shellenberger believes the Green New Deal’s focus on wind and solar is a waste of time and money.
"Whether you're using this plant for a medical reason, or a spiritual reason, or a recreational reason, you should not be going to jail or losing your children for it."
The Right to Try movement, which recently became federal law, allows doctors to prescribe experimental treatments that haven't been approved for sale by regulators.
California Public Health officials confiscated $140,000 worth of cannabidiol-infused beverages from an LA warehouse.
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