The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

I passed up a grad school deferment, and got a different education instead.

Slogans won’t slow the rapid development of dangerously powerful AI. But a citizens’ assembly representative of humanity’s diversity and independent of frontier labs and national governments could.

Ever since the end of the cold war, the subject of nuclear war and the profound threat it poses to humanity has suffered a “peculiar invisibility.” This

Iran and its allies now hold sway over two key oil shipping routes, and Tehran is setting the stage for a diplomatic win that could enhance its stature.

Urban growth in Africa comes with falls on the poorest residents: forced evictions, informal settlements razed for redevelopment projects, with no consultation of the people who live there.

Striving to understand the nature of consciousness.

Can an AI incite a person to violence? If it can and does, who should be held accountable?

AI puts a new spin on old questions about free will: Is an actor the genuine author of their actions? Are they responsible for their choices? Can they be held accountable for them?

In India and China, the nation-state is a legacy of Western modernity.

Tech leaders keep saying “we” must decide AI’s future. Here’s an actual plan to include the public.

For most of human history, climate disrupted our shared beliefs. Now communications technologies do. We are caught between frames.

When the most patient, well-read, emotionally responsive conversationalist in the world is always available, what will we still need from one another?

The reinvention of democracy support needs to be carried forward without the clear leadership of one dominant player.

Michael A. Santoro makes the case that AI governance must distinguish between failures caused by bad data and failures caused by flawed systems.

Now is the time to envision a better electoral system, regardless of who sits on the court.

In what is likely to be a dramatic set of local elections this May, Birmingham is poised to be one of the most notable, with huge opportunities for the Liberal Democrats.  Think of Birmingham City Council and it’s likely the words ‘bankruptcy’ or ‘bin strike’ will come to mind. While these have done huge damage...

DHS chief Markwayne Mullin says the agency will take a hard look at customs enforcement at international airports in sanctuary cities like LAX and JFK.

The internet has stopped being a place we visit — it’s now an environment we inhabit.

OPINION: Most can’t remember the Mussel Slough massacre. Because you were never taught about it in the first place, Joe Mathews writes.

“Everybody wants to have a hand in a great discovery. All I will do is to give a hint or two as to names.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a letter coining the word anesthesia, November 21, 1846 The as…

The politics of left versus right no longer make sense when the future of all earthly life is at stake.

Young people from Peru to Madagascar to Nepal—furious with political elites reaping the spoils of privilege and corruption—are rising up to demand change. But what happens when their movements succeed?

Conservation has traditionally ignored the planet’s smallest life forms. Microbiologists are trying to change that — before it’s too late.

For older generations, risk is a choice. For Gen Z, it's a trap.

Kwan talks local activism and how his peers can help: "When most people hear about this kind of stuff, their eyes glaze over. But I wish that wasn’t the case because this charter affects everyone.”

As the climate crisis deepens, an old green dream is returning — with new tools and technologies.