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Science

Israel's attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.

Joelle M. Abi-Rached

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

Rachel Fraser
Andrew Schrank

On art in the age of generative AI.

James Duesterberg

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

Amy Kapczynski, Christopher Morten, Reshma Ramachandran

Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?

Mala Chatterjee

Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

David J. Chalmers

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

Angus Deaton

Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.

Shobita Parthasarathy

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

Daniel Williams

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

David S. Jones

Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.

Eric Moses Gurevitch

Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.

Martha C. Nussbaum, Jeremy Bendik-Kymer

Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?

Julie Michelle Klinger

Despite debates about scientific certainty, we do not need 100 percent consensus on a scientific claim to accept it as true. 

Jana Bacevic, Peter Vickers

In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.

Daniela Gabor, Ndongo Samba Sylla

Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.

Karen Levy

As Big Tech's data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.

Toussaint Nothias
It won’t be solved through fact checking.

Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.

Sophia Goodfriend

Science is always undertaken from a definite point of view, a new book concedes. But it enlarges our knowledge of the world through the interplay of different perspectives.

Philip Kitcher

Building public trust requires far more than the conveyance of facts and instruction in scientific thinking.

Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Silvia Ivani

In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.

John Crowley

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Matthew Crain

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