Ideas

On Friday, the President of the United States declared that he intends to ban a vibrant source of American speech. And that... Read More

And then, many years later, I read “The Day Before the Revolution,” the prequel short story to The Dispossessed, and found in... Read More

But small differences in these kinds of polls can make a big difference in the headlines they generate—and the decision­making they inform.... Read More

There is a rising concern among Americans about the use and sale of their personal data: for law enforcement purposes, for determining... Read More

Back when we started WIRED magazine, it was all digital, all the time. In Silicon Valley, bodies were treated like the somewhat... Read More

This was a strategy that Clinton embraced throughout his presidency, motivated in part by Thomas Patterson’s landmark 1993 book, Out of Order,... Read More

The Covid-19 crisis closed local, state, and federal courtrooms, put trials on hold, and delayed justice. Now courts are evaluating how to... Read More

I was completely unable to look away, but terrified to look towards. I was stuck mid-scroll on Instagram, on this photo of... Read More

Be honest—have you ever read a privacy disclosure? Even once? Facebook’s data privacy policy is more than 4,000 words. It contains dozens... Read More

Less than a month later, this got me into trouble. Apparently I had upset some Very Important People by “desk-rejecting” their papers,... Read More