What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
America has been here before. The dawn of radio brought the chaos of privacy, censorship, and fake news. It’s time for legislation that revives the democratic wisdom of that era.
In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk.
Special Report | Summer 2015
Summer 2015
Wary of technocracy, a feckless Congress defers to executive bureaucrats.
The debate won’t be settled technocratically because it’s about technocracy itself.
Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
Silicon Valley will only be strengthened by its present scandals unless we ask deeper questions.
Amid growing calls to break up Google, are we missing a quiet alignment between “smart” government and the universal information engine?
On the cultural and philosophical differences that explain contrasting beliefs and policies on GMOs