Author: Adam Lee

The wildest claims about AI—both the optimistic and the pessimistic ones—are unlikely to come true. However, the technology has genuine potential both to liberate humans from toil, or to allow greed and bias to run wild. The solutions we need aren’t sci-fi constructs like Asimov’s three laws, but better laws and policies to guide the…

American voters across the country are making their support for reproductive rights crystal clear. So in every state where they have power, Republicans try to make it harder for citizens to make their voices heard.

Cluster bombs are terrible weapons which endanger civilians long after hostilities have ended. But they may be the swiftest way to defeat Russia and end the Ukraine war, which will save more lives overall.

The Christian homeschool movement is part of a broader dominionist plan to conquer democracy in the name of Christian fundamentalism.

From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists who speak out are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists who don’t want to hear facts that contradict their beliefs.

Bill Gothard’s ideology of male supremacy is a monstrous doctrine, used to groom women to accept both sexual abuse and financial exploitation.

Advocates of free-market capitalism such as Ayn Rand claim that progress comes about through solitary geniuses who defy the critics and do what everyone said was impossible. But in real life, innovators can’t overcome the laws of physics.

Keeping kids isolated from viewpoints you disagree with is a parenting strategy that never works. A better one is to teach them how to recognize propaganda and toxic memes when they see them.

Bill Gothard, the Christian cult leader whose teachings the Duggars followed, preaches a worldview founded on absolute obedience, rigid gender roles, and violence as discipline.

“Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” blows apart the Potemkin-village façade that the Duggar family presented to the world.