Struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.

Contrary to the boosterism of billionaires, the need for space colonization must be argued for, not assumed. And the arguments aren’t good.

Proptech is leading to new forms of housing injustice in ways that increase the power of landlords and further disempower tenants and those seeking shelter.

A doctor's case against COVID-19 abortion bans. 

Claims that the cure is worse than the disease rely on a false tradeoff between human needs and the economy.

Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. We must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.

Rumors of thinking robots are greatly exaggerated. Still, we cannot leave decisions about even lesser AI in the hands of those who stand to profit from its use.

We need greater democratic oversight of AI not just from developers and designers, but from all members of society.

Two new books about machine creativity mostly reveal how little appreciation we still have for the full range of human creativity.

Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them.

On the lure of climate entrepreneurism.

Allured by the promise of Big Data, science has shortchanged causal explanation in favor of data-driven prediction. But ultimately we must ask why.

The Cold War invention of scientific neutrality.

Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the story for the Academy Award–winning film Arrival. Now his new collection of short stories gives us further glimpses of possible futures.

The meaning of fatherhood remains elusive, even in the age of DNA-based paternity testing.