Jacob Silverman

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The president is pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. But many will be headed to other war zones where America’s military grinds on.

Body cams and artificial intelligence are making policing worse, not better.

Decades of disruption made Silicon Valley rich, but its ideology of technological solutionism failed the rest of us. It’s time to reinvest in public goods.

Rounding out his appointments with the new antitrust chief, the president has found a team bold enough to challenge the terms of our economic dystopia head-on.

Companies like Israel’s NSO Group have revolutionized how governments spy on their citizens. Can they be tamed?

The White House wants Facebook to crack down on anti-vax posts, but that would require the social media giant to transform on a fundamental level.

The new FTC commissioner has the authority, instincts, and acumen to meaningfully rein in the power of companies like Facebook and Amazon. That’s why they hate her.

Rather than pursue another heavy-handed failure, the Biden administration should lift the unjust trade embargo and keep away from the island nation’s nascent protest movement.

The Democrats’ plan to take on Big Tech is divided between slipshod legislative and regulatory efforts. Can small bites get the job done, or do we need more sweeping proposals?

Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are spending billions to go to space, using money and resources that belong to the people.

The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.

The war veteran turned politician, who hopes to challenge Marjorie Taylor Greene, has revealed little about his life. We tried to find out why.

The Fox News hatemonger and the rage-tweeting muckraker are pushing an NSA “scandal” without evidence—the latest fruits of a cynical partnership built on mutual self-interest.

A Peacock docuseries raises important questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate, but the answers remain a maddening mystery.

Republicans rigged the IRS in favor of the rich. Biden can revive the agency to serve the rest of us.

The crime-reporting app has big plans: live broadcasts, for-hire private security details, and a growing user base of freaked-out customers. It’s building a paranoid, profitable future.

Wage increases and other rising expenses are being “passed on” to the consumer, we’re told. But we’re looking in all the wrong places for the true costs of how we live.

Bitcoin provides entreé to a wildcat market dominated by fraudsters. The ex-president clearly recognizes his milieu.

The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.

Our death-dealing institutions are no less lethal, but Republicans are just that desperate for another front in the culture war.