To the leaders building artificial intelligence (and the policymakers now responsible for governing it):

Twenty-five years since 9/11, tech and political shifts have increasingly pitted mass surveillance against constitutional rights.

John Oliver discusses the tools police are using to keep track of civilians – whether or not they’re suspected of a crime – and some creative ideas about how to use wigs. Subscribe to the #lastweektonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/lastweektonight

The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

An Iranian official told Drop Site that Trump’s “reactions improved noticeably" after the psychiatric professionals joined the negotiating effort.

On Dec. 5, 2025, FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented Donald Trump with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, nominally for Trump’s “tireless efforts to bring people together in a spirit of peace.” I found myself less interested in the cynicism of placating Trump with the sort of bribe one would bestow upon a recalcitrant 10-year-old—nobody considers…

Journalists’ denial of our political crisis compels them to invent centrists

Previously unreleased report obtained via freedom of information battle says Pezzullo exceeded ‘boundaries of normal public service practice’

The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech

On language, coercion, and action "it is as though we were caught in a maze of abstractions, metaphors, and figures of speech in which everything can be taken and mistaken for something else, because we have no reality, either in history or in everyday experience, to which we can unanimously

Former prince arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

I didn't want to write this. I don't want to write this. I feel like I need to write something. I am writing this. I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience. I am still writing this, ei...

The Wexner Foundation has long claimed Epstein had "did not make decisions regarding the use of Foundation’s funds.” New emails show that is flagrantly false.

Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a real person, though, and Marine Todd was the invented hero in a classic bit of dippy Obama-era…

Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands — November 19, 2025. The Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has introduced a nationwide Universal Basic Income (UBI) program, marking the...

How one experiment defined the social networking market better than the government did. PLUS: Gemini 3 arrives

After King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard left Spotify in protest earlier this year, something strange took their place

Teens with disabilities say they might end up losing contact with friends and online communities due to being banned from social media.

OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week.

We evaluated 14 of the world’s most powerful digital platforms on their disclosed policies and practices affecting people’s rights to freedom of expression and privacy.

'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.