And yet we keep proclaiming how special we are. As Webb puts it, “Hamlet got one thing right: we’re a piece of work.” For example, hummingbirds can see colors that human beings are not even able to ...

The winners and losers of technological advancement are determined by very deliberate policy choices—namely patents and copyright law—not the technology itself.

is a co-founder of Mountain State Spotlight and a distinguished local reporting fellow with the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica. In 2018, he received a MacArthur Fellowship—the so-called “Genius ...

is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the League of Conservation Voters; she served as the 8th Administrator of the EPA, and Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change.

President Donald J. Trump has wasted little time so far in trying to install key elements of his agenda, through executive orders on health care, infrastructure, immigration, and many other issues.

is Director of Election Protection at Issue One and a lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

is a senior technology researcher and advocate at Human Rights Watch.

is a book critic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His latest book, Only a Voice: Essays, has just been published by Verso.

is a senior news writer and founding staffer at The Trace. She previously covered gun violence at The New York Times.

is director of the Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy at Wayne State University Law School.

is the former Beirut Bureau Chief of The Washington Post who has spent more than 20 years covering the Middle East.

The people who actually powered Conor Lamb’s nail-biter victory in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district are scratching their heads over the “Republican lite” narrative some pundits have put ...