Alexander Zaitchik

For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

Dan Reed’s documentary “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” on HBO shows a man obsessed with selling branded health and virility treatments.

His new book, Smoke and Ashes, traces the ravages of British opium on India from the eighteenth century to the present.

Longtermists focus on ensuring humanity’s existence into the far future. But not without sacrifices in the present.

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.

Thousands of people have been suffering a slew of crazy postinfection syndromes for months—and there’s no end in sight.

Endless growth is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it.

The race for a cure has put a spotlight on corporate control over medical research. Under a Democratic administration, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Fears of the nuclear threat may have subsided with the end of the Cold War, but the danger did not.

The U.S. was once at the cutting edge of pandemic prevention. Then Big Pharma took over.

Sanders's New Hampshire operation is a model for fusing movement politics with a presidential campaign. Can he replicate that model across the country?

A dispatch from Pope Francis’s efforts to combat climate change—and to give a diminished Church a new indigenous face

How the junior senator from Missouri has become the face of the post-liberal movement—and positioned himself as the philosophical heir to Trump.

Edir Macedo has a church, a bank, a TV channel, and a Moses complex. And with the election of Jair Bolsonaro, he has emerged as the country’s most controversial kingmaker.

The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.

Why is a so-called populist trying to dismantle America's most effective consumer watchdog?

In Cleveland, the master far-right conspiracist has emerged as a national force behind the rise of Trump. But he's still not sure about the guy.

Building climate justice from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina