Science
Secrecy in Tension with Democracy and Privacy
When someone attacks your democracy, it tends to stick in your craw. I don’t know that democracy is…
AI Is Changing—Not Stealing—Our Jobs and Lives
There was much angst surrounding AI as it loomed as a potential part of daily life, even among the…
Prison Call Order Delays Reform of Market Ripe for…
Earlier this summer, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unexpectedly delayed implementation…
Vaccines Under Attack – The Dispatch
Despite concerns from some members—notably, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana—the Senate…
When Fact Checkers Stop Checking Facts
A recent Washington Post headline claimed its tech columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, had shown that…
Dial-Up Internet May Be History, but It Still…
This week’s announcement that AOL will be discontinuing its dial-up internet access service on…
Illinois Bans AI Therapy. Questions about Enforcement…
Last week, my home state of Illinois became one of the first in the nation to ban AI therapy when…
Who Owns Information? Governments Are Asking the Wrong…
Who should control data? The question is increasingly central to policy debates in Washington,…
Reading the Mind of the Machine: Why GPT-5’s…
When OpenAI released GPT-5 last week, most coverage focused on the model’s performance gains, such…
Understanding Why the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Free…
With the US Supreme Court now considering in NetChoice v. Fitch whether to reinstate an injunction…
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