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A More Political Science

What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Energy •
Health Care •
Military •
Law •
Infrastructure •
Political Philosophy •
Innovation •
Privacy •
Technocracy and Expertise •
Regulation •
Public Health •
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Essay | April 3, 2025

April 3, 2025

  • M. Anthony Mills

The New NIH Director Has His Work Cut Out For Him

Science funding badly needs reform. Jay Bhattacharya could be the man for the job — but Trump may have blown up his chance.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • M. Anthony Mills

How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Jon Askonas

The New Control Society

The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?

From: Reality: A Post-Mortem

Jon Askonas

Online Exclusive | July 3, 2024

July 3, 2024

  • Philip Wallach

Will Congress Take the W on Chevron?

Making legislators decide regulations is good for democracy — if they actually do it.

Philip Wallach

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Refs Are Working Us

Fact-checking used to be how journalists policed themselves. Now it’s how they police everyone else.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Masking Debate We Didn’t Have

The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • A Lover of Good Government
  • Philip Wallach

How Congress Was Saved

A report from the year 2039 on how the spirit of efficiency reformed a once-maligned institution

A Lover of Good Government and Philip Wallach

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Louise Liebeskind

Sam Altman Doesn’t Want To Be Your AI King

...but he might be anyway.

From: They’re Here…

Louise Liebeskind

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Adam Elkus

AI Can’t Beat Stupid

Predictions of AI apocalypse suffer the classic egghead blunder: they overrate the power of raw intelligence.

From: They’re Here…

Adam Elkus

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Sam Kahn

Bacon Bacon Shakespeare Spy

One brilliant madwoman’s quest to show that the Bard’s works were secretly penned by the father of science, at war with his own creation

Sam Kahn

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