Not only a tool to justify U.S. and Israeli intervention, the label is increasingly dividing Iranian society from within.

Alex Shams is a writer and anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, and elsewhere. A political and literary forum, ...

Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

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In an interview in May, the head of the Israeli military intelligence’s targeting division responded to outrage over the civilian death toll in Gaza by boasting that algorithmic surveillance systems ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.

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Olivia Cheng is an MFA student in fiction at the University of Michigan. Previously, she worked in Silicon Valley managing engineering teams. “She stuffed spinach in her mouth until her teeth were a ...

The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel. Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds ...