I went to Disneyland for a carefree, childfree girls' weekend. When I came home, everything changed | Continue reading
Salon talks to Victoria Loustalot, author of "Future Perfect," about her journey through the mystical unknowns | Continue reading
The spacecraft will snap images of Ultima Thule, an object more distant than Pluto in the Kuiper Belt | Continue reading
Open-source pioneers Bill and Lynne Jolitz may be the most famous programmers you've never heard of. | Continue reading
The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme | Continue reading
Anti-abortion Republicans force the end of a study on mice implanted with human fetal tissue | Continue reading
Long before Silicon Valley colonized our minds, the Spanish forced their technological logic on the Ohlone natives | Continue reading
Many historic gains of the civil rights movement have been dismantled, but the midterms may suggest a path forward | Continue reading
If we do, our vision of what our democratic system is all about, already waning, will dim dangerously | Continue reading
Why do so many California politicians count themselves as adherents of YIMBY, a pure form of neoliberal sophistry? | Continue reading
Paranoid CIA heads blamed Soviet moles, but the real reason for the repeated disasters was much simpler | Continue reading
Conservation groups are calling for an international treaty to prevent ecological collapse | Continue reading
Google let imperious engineer Anthony Levandowski run wild — and innocent people got hurt | Continue reading
Silicon Valley isn't just a hub of inequality — wages are declining for everybody but the rich | Continue reading
The nomination process has been polluted by lies for decades, it's time to scrub the process | Continue reading
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I came to San Francisco to change my life. I found a tribe of depressed workaholics living on top of one another | Continue reading
Kevin McCarthy was irate earlier this week because he couldn't see Laura Ingraham's tweet, but it was his own fault | Continue reading
What can't mushrooms do? From cleaning chemical spills to mitigating topsoil loss, they're nature's unsung heroes | Continue reading
How Larry Wall invented a messy programming language -- and changed the face of the Web. | Continue reading
Venture capitalist funds pointless plan to carve up California, while social-justice initiatives fail to qualify | Continue reading
The tech entrepreneur gave a hefty check to a PAC dedicated to maintaining Republican control of Congress | Continue reading
In particular, angry and fearful faces seemed to have a profound affect on man's best friend | Continue reading
I've tried and failed to convince my boyfriend's father to "upgrade" to the wide-open Web. | Continue reading
Rank-and-file union members at AT&T are now in their sixth day of a strike across the Midwest | Continue reading
A critic dissects the most complex -- and controversial -- film of the year. | Continue reading
I believed in trigger warnings when I taught a course on sex and film. Then they drove me out of the academy | Continue reading
Critic David Golumbia is blowing the whistle on how crypto has normalized right-wing economic thought | Continue reading
Before he wrote songs with the Grateful Dead, Barlow was my housemate over the very weird winter of 1969 | Continue reading
Steven Brill's new book on the rise of modern inequality is important, but to fix it we need a bigger picture | Continue reading
While under investigation in 2011, Google made major contributions to influential academics, documents reveal | Continue reading
If technology is the state religion, Singularitarianism is its most extreme and fanatical sect | Continue reading
Facial recognition, surveillance and helping you buy things are a far cry from android sentience | Continue reading