Hackers seek ransoms from Baltimore and communities across the US
The people of Baltimore are beginning their fifth week under an electronic siege that has prevented residents from obtaining building permits and business licen…
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Germany proposes Europe’s first diversity rules for social media platforms
Tighter regulation of social media and other online services in now under discussion in several European countries, as well as in the UK where the government ha…
About That Pelosi Video: What to Do About ‘Cheapfakes’ in 2020
In the summer of 2016, a meme began to circulate on the fringes of the right-wing internet: the notion that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was seriously…
Our Cars Are Now Roving Computers. Is The Fourth Amendment Ready?
Our cars don’t just take us from point A to point B anymore. They now play our favorite Spotify playlists, read us our text messages, and make phone calls. They…
Democracy's Dilemma
The Internet was going to set us all free. At least, that is what U.S. policy makers, pundits, and scholars believed in the 2000s. The Internet would undermine…
Democracy's Dilemma
The key term that recurs throughout Henry Farrell’s and Bruce Schneier’s essay is “trust.” That is no surprise, as the concept unites both authors’ bodies of wo…
Jeff Bezos’s new plans for space have stirred up old fights in science fiction
Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos on Thursday debuted a new lunar landing module, to be constructed by his space exploration company, Blue Origin.…
Britain’s defense secretary was just fired over Huawei. Here’s what’s going on.
Gavin Williamson was just fired as Britain’s defense secretary after being accused of leaking information. Last week, Britain’s National Security Council decid…
By Punishing Iran, Trump Is Weakening America
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo complained about Republicans in Congress who were grandstanding for harsher sanctions on Iran. Now, he has joined…
Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd
We are constantly exposed in public. Yet most of our actions will fade into obscurity. Do you, for example, remember the faces of strangers who stood in line wi…
The attorney general’s FBI conspiracy theory is all conspiracy and no theory
Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum’s new book, “A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy,” comes out today. I asked them…
AOC and Elizabeth Warren want higher taxes on the rich. Selling that is tricky.
Kenneth Scheve (@kfscheve) is professor of political science at Stanford University, and David Stasavage (@stasavage) is dean for the social sciences and the Ju…