The Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs The Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs
If bosses continue to exploit technology to dehumanize and displace workers, the future of work looks bleak.
Nov 27, 2019 / Michelle Chen
Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology
In his short story collection Exhalation, he builds social worlds where every character and object is deeply intertwined in history and in future possibility.
Nov 19, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
Yang Doesn’t Add Up Yang Doesn’t Add Up
The presidential candidate is great at identifying problems, but his policy proposals need a lot of work.
Nov 18, 2019 / John Nichols
Where I Live You Can Break Your Neck Trying to Get Cell Service Where I Live You Can Break Your Neck Trying to Get Cell Service
And other tales from the Internet wilderness.
Nov 4, 2019 / Karen Rothmyer
What It Feels Like to Be Watched What It Feels Like to Be Watched
From the streets to our smartphones, surveillance has taken on frightening proportions.
Oct 28, 2019 / Column / Laila Lalami
China Is Exporting Its Anti-Muslim Strategy to India China Is Exporting Its Anti-Muslim Strategy to India
Muslims in Kashmir may find themselves in a Xinjiang-style dystopia thanks to Chinese technology and Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalism.
Oct 16, 2019 / Nithin Coca
A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players
How baseball’s numbers game threatens to strangle the sport.
Oct 8, 2019 / Feature / Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier
Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze
Epstein’s scientist “friends” should have known better than to associate with a crackpot transhumanist.
Aug 12, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Green New Deal Is This Generation’s Moon Shot The Green New Deal Is This Generation’s Moon Shot
Sending humans to the moon was a choice. Saving the earth is a necessity.
Jul 29, 2019 / D.D. Guttenplan
Letters From the July 29-August 5, 2019, Issue Letters From the July 29-August 5, 2019, Issue
In defense of aesthetes… The imperfect vs. the irredeemable… Pigs in space…
Jul 16, 2019 / Our Readers