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Don't Co-Parent With Congress

I’M ALWAYS PUZZLED when I hear other parents say they’re worried about the effects social media might be having on their children.

Is Chinese Garlic a Threat to National Security?

IS A STAPLE ingredient in your kitchen secretly undermining American sovereignty? Sen. Rick Scott (R–Fla.) seems to believe so.

Launch Approved? Not So Fast, Says Sluggish FAA

MOST AMERICANS ARE eager to see NASA astronauts return to the moon and push humanity’s boundaries with future exploration of Mars.

SpaceX Edges Closer to the Moon

ARTEMIS II IS a crewed moon flyby mission, the first in a series of missions meant to get American astronauts back to the moon and eventually to Mars.

Blaming Tech for Teen Troubles

Jonathan Haidt’s clever, insufficient case against smartphones

The Complicated History of the Spy in Your Pocket

AOOP PULLED over Ivan Lopez in Somerton, Arizona, a small town near the Mexican border.

THE FUTURE OF PORN IS CONSENSUAL DEEPFAKES

THE CASE FOR CONSENSUAL CONCEPT CAPTURE

Wicked Problems Remain

REVOLUTIONARY NEW TECHNOLOGIES WILL NEVER REPLACE THE NEED FOR MARKETS.

THE POWERFUL UNPREDICTABILITY OF AI

Physicist and engineer Stephen Wolfram on whether artificial intelligence can fix science, regulation, and innovation

THE GREAT BLACK POPE AND ASIAN NAZI DEBACLE OF 2024

EXCITING NEW Al TOOLS ARE STILL BEING SHAPED BY HUMAN BEINGS.

AI Is Like Our Descendants

AS HUMANITY HAS advanced, we have slowly become able to purposely design more parts of our world and ourselves.

ΑΙ WARFARE IS BORING BUT DEADLY

BUREAUCRATS IN CUBICLES WILL KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN TERMINATOR ROBOTS WILL.

AI's Cozy Crony Capitalism

WHAT HAPPENS TO REGULATION WHEN THE BAPTISTS ARE ALSO THE BOOTLEGGERS?

THE CASE OF THE AI-GENERATED GIANT RAT PENIS

HOW DID AN OBVIOUSLY FABRICATED ARTICLE END UP IN A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL?

THE NIGHT I ASKED CHATGPT HOW TO BUILD A BOMB

YES, YOU CAN TRICK THE BOT INTO GIVING YOU INFORMATION IT’S SUPPOSED TO KEEP TOITSELF. NO, THAT ISN’T SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

LONG LIVE THE FIVEPARAGRAPH ESSAY?

AI WRITES A PRETTY GOOD ANALYSIS OF 1984.

THE FUTURE OF AI IS HELPING US DISCOVER THE PAST

HISTORICAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH ARE BEING REVAMPED BY Al.

IN THE AI ECONOMY, THERE WILL BE ZERO PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT

THE DEMAND FOR INTELLIGENCE AND LABOR WILL ALWAYS BE GREATER THAN THE SUPPLY.

'Smoking Opium Is Not Our Vice'

America’s first drug war was driven by xenophobia against chinese migrants.

THE LIBERTARIAN MIND OF DAVID BOAZ

Threats to freedom, Trump vs. Biden, and the wins libertarians can’t seem to acknowledge

DARE TO Fail

THERE’S NO SUCH thing as a universal millennial experience, but DARE comes close.

CULTURE WARRIOR IN CHIEF

THE MODERN PRESIDENCY IS A DIVIDER, NOT A UNITER. IT HAS BECOME FAR TOO POWERFUL TO BE ANYTHING ELSE.

Progress, Rediscovered

A NEW MOVEMENT PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S PROBLEMS EMERGES.

HOW CAPITALISM BEAT COMMUNISM IN VIETNAM

IT ONLY TOOK A GENERATION TO GO FROM RATION CARDS TO EXPORTING ELECTRONICS.

The Pupil Panopticon

BIG BROTHER—and Parent, and Teacher— are watching.

Congress Could Swipe Your Credit Reward Points

A PLOT TO kill credit card reward points has bipartisan buy-in, with lawmakers framing the effort as an attempt to curb stillstubborn inflation.

Regulators Killed a Lifeline for Roombas

IN JANUARY 2024, Amazon terminated its agreement to acquire iRobot, the company that manufactures the Roomba robot vacuum.

Are U.S. Strikes on Houthis Constitutional?

SINCE JANUARY, THE United States and its allies have been conducting strikes against the Houthis, a Yemen-based Islamist militant organization that has been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea.

WHAT IF AMERICA RUNS OUT OF BOMBS?

DUE TO OVERZEALOUS INTERVENTIONISM, THE U.S. 1S DISPENSING MUNITIONS FASTER THAN THEY CAN BE REPLACED.

All the Sad Young Things

Maybe the problem for teens isn’t screens, but what they are replacing.