America must not quietly accept educational collapse

We have become the educational equivalent of passengers on a slowly sinking ship.

He may be the king, but is Charles also a bit of a traitor? Dear reader, you decide | Ravi Holy

Britain’s religious right is fuming over a document suggesting the monarch wants to be defender of all faiths. I’m with Charles: what does that make me? We need to talk…

AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney

These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems…

8 years after Janus, unions are still trying to keep workers in the dark

The real story of the Janus era is not of collapse, but of choice. Once workers had a real choice, hundreds of thousands took it and quit their unions.

Space travel’s heavyweights ponder a future with antimatter rockets

The technology could be used to send probes across interstellar space to other star systems.

To unlock agentic AI's promise for government, America must build reliability

The promise of agentic AI is massive — the problem is we cannot currently deploy agentic AI at scale, because today’s systems are not yet reliable enough. 

How Trump can win back allies and rejuvenate US diplomacy on Iran

Two areas where concerted diplomacy could still materially improve the outcome stand out. 

Why are American women ‘underbabied’?

The U.S. is facing a declining birth rate due to a lack of paid leave, discrimination against pregnant workers, unaffordable childcare, and wage gaps between men and women, as well…

It’s not 'just' to erase someone's home equity

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that property owners are not entitled to fair market value when the government seizes and sells their home to satisfy a debt, but the process…

My nine-year-old son Mohammad, killed by Israeli soldiers, is not just another number | Alia Abdel Majid Al-Hallaq

Mohammad was shot after going to play football – and we joined the 54 families in the occupied West Bank whose children were killed by Israel in 2025 alone My…