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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.

The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?

Final response: Humility is more than a personal attitude. It should be a collective practice.

Making the issue a matter of personality traits can distract us from the historical and material origins of our present crisis.

Why do we fail to predict—and even more importantly, prevent—social and political crises?

Combatting the West’s pandemic self-interest requires humanism in addition to humility.

When it comes to bad choices, humility may not be the right solution.

Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.

Nearly two years into a global pandemic, uncertainty has profoundly unsettled both our personal and political lives. In our Fall 2021 book, eleven thinkers consider its scientific, philosophical, and economic aspects.

Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.

Beyond carbon emissions and safety, the debate must also confront how the choices we make now constrain the kind of world we can build in the future.

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.

Concerns about long-term side effects have helped fuel vaccine hesitancy. An immunologist explains why we can be confident in vaccine safety.

If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.

This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds.

The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.

A recent government report gave UFOs a rebrand, but so many basic questions remain unanswered.

Justice demands that we think not just about profit or performance, but above all about purpose.