Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

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

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

As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

Louise Melling is a Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU and Director of its Ruth Bader Ginsburg Center for Liberty, which encompasses the ACLU’s work on reproductive freedom, women’s rights, lesbian gay ...

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Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...

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 ...