We need targeted policies, not blunt tariffs, to drive “American energy dominance”
President Trump and his appointees have repeatedly stressed the need to establish “American energy dominance.” But the White House’s profusion
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How a bankruptcy judge can stop a genetic privacy disaster
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A tech company accumulates a ton of user data, hoping to figure
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Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for human disease? Why
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From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem
In trying to make sense of the wrecking ball that is Elon Musk and President Trump’s DOGE, it may be
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Three reasons Meta will struggle with community fact-checking
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will cut back on its content moderation efforts and eliminate fact-checking in
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There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race
The United States and China are entangled in what many have dubbed an “AI arms race.” In the early days
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Trump’s win is a tragic loss for climate progress
Donald Trump’s decisive victory is a stunning setback for climate change. The Republican President-elect’s return to the White House means
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Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change
In an essay last week, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, argued that the accelerating capabilities of AI will usher
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Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries
I was raised in the 1980s and ’90s, and for my generation and generations before us, the public library was
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