Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

Down a tree-lined street near my grandmother’s house in Tehran is a mosque where locals go to chat, rest, and sometimes even pray. In the back of the mosque, behind a small library, is an office for a ...

On a Sunday in the summer of 1959, in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Senator John F. Kennedy rose to address the banquet of the annual meeting of the American Society for ...

A graduate of Harvard Law School and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Seth Abramson is author of three poetry collections, most recently Thievery, winner of the 2012 Akron Poetry Prize. He is series ...

As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

Today we face the paradox of states simultaneously criminalizing masks—because of protests—and mandating them because of COVID-19. In this interview, social theorist AK Thompson explores the history ...

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