I recently received this email from a self-styled “anti-school teacher.”  Reprinted unchanged with permission of the author, Samuel Mosley. Dear Professor Caplan, My name is Samuel Mosley. I studied economics at Beloit College, my advisor was a former graduate…

The demise of a California housing measure shows how progressives abandon progressive values in their own backyards.

Alternative burial options are growing in popularity.

Changes in technology, politics, and business are all transforming espionage. Intelligence agencies must adapt—or risk irrelevance.

China has turned the Xinjiang region in its far west into an incubator for automated authoritarianism that could spread across the country and beyond.

Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

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Video posted on U.S. Defense contractor Raytheon’s Twitter account, appear to show future laser weapon systems that that can stop enemy hypersonic missiles. Hypersonic weapons are highly mane…

This PEP proposed a list of standard library modules to be removed from the standard library. The modules are mostly historic data formats (e.g. Commodore and SUN file formats), APIs and operating systems that have been superseded a long time ago (e.g. ...

The series, which ended its twelve-season run on Thursday, brought tech concepts to an older generation as the field grew from a curiosity to a vexation to an inescapable substrate of American life.

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said shareholders rejected proposals to curb and audit its facial recognition service on Wednesday, just as members of Congress indicated there was bipartisan support to one day regulate the technology.

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