The agency now restricts access to an important database if it thinks a scientist’s research may enter “forbidden” territory. | Continue reading
The agency now restricts access to an important database if it thinks a scientist’s research may enter “forbidden” territory. | Continue reading
A much-discussed new book makes a radical call to reorient human morality toward the distant future. | Continue reading
Newly released numbers from the National Crime Victimization Survey make it clear. | Continue reading
New Jersey’s effort to dun New York remote workers highlights a mounting face-off between state governments over telecommuting. | Continue reading
The disparity between whites and blacks has shrunk. | Continue reading
Radical environmentalists fight against the very technologies that would cut carbon emissions. | Continue reading
Pandemic restrictions stumble on like zombies. | Continue reading
The removal of swift consequences for criminal behavior has led to an explosion of violence for even trivial slights. | Continue reading
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With child welfare agencies too often ignoring past records of abuse—often in the name of racial equity—using Big Data may be the best way to protect at-risk kids. | Continue reading
Give it to Sweden’s Anders Tegnell and Johan Giesecke instead. | Continue reading
They degrade the social experience of dining out. | Continue reading
The U.S. Sentencing Commission finds a strong connection between long sentences and lower recidivism rates. | Continue reading
The shift from ad revenue to the pursuit of digital subscriptions has turned journalism into post-journalism. | Continue reading
A Nature article traffics in debunked history to bolster claims of discrimination. | Continue reading
Can meritocracy survive? | Continue reading
Are radical prosecutors freeing guilty murderers? | Continue reading
A White House official asks tech companies to settle normative questions surrounding climate change. | Continue reading
Those alleging that the United States imprisons too many people rely on faulty history and bad facts. | Continue reading
The celebrity chef, writer, and TV star overcame addiction to find midlife fame and make a decade’s worth of transformative television. The end came too soon. | Continue reading
Well-educated progressives wield institutional power to impose a new political and social order. | Continue reading
The school's reintroduction of the SAT into admissions is a welcome development, but it doesn’t go far enough. | Continue reading
A brief overview of options for addressing mass shootings and gun violence | Continue reading
A new book offers surprising insights into the traits of outstanding people. | Continue reading
Stuffing people who need drug or mental-health treatment into free or low-cost housing has proved disastrous. | Continue reading
As human life migrates to a new technological domain, powerful states race to write its rules. | Continue reading
A central-bank-issued digital dollar could enable a dark future. | Continue reading
Workers around the country face a sellers’ market for their skills—and they’d rather keep the dues money for themselves. | Continue reading
The notion that a demographically representative college class makes for better education is a pretext for the real proposition: that certain people deserve reparations. | Continue reading
The medical-school accreditation body places an increasing emphasis on “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” | Continue reading
Miami seeks to build a startup haven for tech entrepreneurs and cryptocurrency innovators. | Continue reading
They are torn between being journalists and being PR agents for their sources. | Continue reading
It could become a run on the country’s central bank itself, with important currency implications. | Continue reading
Our increasing aversion to taking chances creates dangers of its own. | Continue reading
Despite early struggles, a determined Ukrainian defense, and widespread condemnation, the Russian campaign in Ukraine may yet achieve its objectives. | Continue reading
In states where public-sector unions are the strongest, schools have been closed the longest. | Continue reading
The Canadian trucker convoy suggests a new class divide originating in our experience of reality itself. | Continue reading
President Biden’s top science advisor is out. | Continue reading
The antidote to the Great Resignation and a plunging birthrate is automation. | Continue reading
The drug’s efficacy aside, our scientific authorities increasingly replace inquiry with diktat. | Continue reading
An academic literary critic gets lost in the Age of Amazon. | Continue reading
Unlike the Internet, the dawning digital environment promises autonomy from the physical world. | Continue reading
Understanding the sociology of organizations | Continue reading
Demography isn't destiny when it comes to immigration and politics. | Continue reading
Growing tech censorship continues to spark rapid gains at alternative platforms. | Continue reading
Lower-income people shoulder a disproportionate share of the costs of California’s environmental policies. | Continue reading