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Telephone

Radiant Mobile phone | Midjourney/Prykhodov/Dreamstime

Phones

Why I'm Cheering for This New Anti-Porn, Anti-LGBT, Christian Phone Network 

Free market solutions for the win! 

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.13.2026 11:20 AM

Sen. Lindsey Graham | Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

Surveillance

Lindsey Graham Is Outraged About Federal Surveillance Powers That Lindsey Graham Helped Create and Expand

The government can look at your phone records whenever it wants, but it's a different story when we're talking about his metadata.

Eric Boehm | 11.19.2025 2:35 PM

Doctor holding tablet doing telehealth work, with a map of the United States in the background | Illustration: Lex Villena; Melpomenem| Dreamstime.com

Season 2, Episode 5 Podcasts

Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Dial 'T' for Terrible Telehealth Laws

How restrictions on telemedicine are forcing doctors to choose between following the law and obeying their ethical obligations.

Eric Boehm | 10.3.2024 7:00 AM

Greyscale photo of a desk phone sitting on a metal table in front of a plexiglass window in a jail. | Wirestock | Dreamstime.com

Jail

FCC Will Cap the Cost of Prison Phone Calls

The move would lower the per-minute cost precipitously and allow inmates to better keep in touch with friends and family.

Joe Lancaster | 7.18.2024 5:00 PM

The book cover of The Anxious Generation, next to a photo of its author, Jonathan Haidt, speaking, with his hands up by his face. | Book cover: Penguin Press | Photo: World Economic Forum

Technology

Blaming Tech for Teen Troubles

Jonathan Haidt’s clever, insufficient case against smartphones.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.26.2024 4:00 PM

v2 | Illustration: Lex Villena; Rawpixelimages, Chernetskaya | Dreamstime.com

Privacy

Cops Say Encryption Hinders Investigations. These Documents Say Otherwise.

Law enforcers have plenty of tools; they just want to paw through our data without effort or expense.

J.D. Tuccille | 6.25.2021 7:00 AM

topicslaw | Joanna Andreasson. Source image: WhiteHouse.gov

Law & Government

The Supreme Court, Livestreamed and Uncut 

Just like millions of their fellow Americans, the justices would have to adjust to the strange new realities of social distancing and working from home.

Damon Root | 8.10.2020 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Joanna Andreasson

Donald Trump

Dial * for Trump

The president's phone diplomacy disrupts the status quo

Ed Krayewski | 5.1.2017 12:00 PM

FCC

Interview with Mark S. Fowler

The new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission talks about the future of television, radio, and telephone service at the hands of federal regulators

Milton Mueller | 11.1.1981 12:00 PM

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