Artificial Reason

A conversation on AI, rationality, and violence.

How to Lie with (Political) Statistics

Inside the data wars over Democratic strategy.

Politics All the Way Down

Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

Race, Policing, and the Limits of Social Science

Studying the social world requires more than deference to data—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the tools with which they are parsed.

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