By Mara Hvistendahl MIT Technology Review Last summer, an audience of government officials, military personnel, and foreign ambassadors gathered in Aspen, Colorado, to hear John Carlin, then an assistant attorney general, […]
By Jin H. Pak Parameters Over the past decade, numerous analysts and scholars have speculated about the likelihood of India and China going to war over water. Some maintain a […]
By Elizabeth E. Joh New Scientist Social media raises tricky questions that judges are beginning to try to answer. It has been found possible to violate a restraining order by […]
By Emerson T. Brooking & Peter W. Singer The Atlantic Like most everything today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a […]
By Robin Washington The Marshall Project If you’ve ever been pulled over for a broken taillight and suffered a punishing fine — or worse — you can take heart that […]
By James Palmer Aeon In our apartment in central Beijing, we fight a daily rearguard action against entropy. The mirror on my wardrobe came off its hinges six months ago […]
By Richard Martin MIT Technology Review In February I flew through the interior of a machine that could represent the future of nuclear power. I was on a virtual-reality tour […]
By Jason Brennan Aeon Who should hold power: the few or the many? Concentrating power in the hands of a few – in monarchy, dictatorship or oligarchy – tends to […]
By Taylor Owen & Robert Gorwa Foreign Affairs On August 2, 1939, at the dawn of World War II and six months after the discovery of uranium fission, Albert Einstein and Leo […]
By David Runciman The Guardian On 23 February, Donald Trump stood before a rally of cheering supporters to celebrate a thumping victory in the Nevada Republican caucus – his third […]
