Jacob Silverman

After the Christchurch shootings, Australia passed a law imposing harsh penalties on tech platforms that don't remove certain types of content. Should the U.S. do the same?

Silicon Valley’s emerging role in America’s forever war

The generational shift that made tech companies a cultural and political force

The alt-right relies on social media to spread hate, and Silicon Valley can stop them. Will they?

Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel about James Earl Ray is exhaustively detailed, but light on reflection.

Two books shed new light on the toppled dictator's final days—and what the U.S. still doesn’t understand about Iraq.

The true cause of our sleeplessness epidemic.

Hackers have turned our cheap electronic devices against us. And at this rate, it's only going to get worse.

How the intelligence community has used "transparency" to create perfectly dull political theater.

In its move to HBO, ‘High Maintenance’ continues its chronicle of a fleet of New Yorkers and their charming, privileged world of recreational drug use.

Two lefties discuss the latest "documentary" by the right wing's favorite conspiracy theorist.

"Indian Point," a new documentary about the nuclear power plant in New York, raises unsettling questions about the safety of atomic energy.

The social network's rigid simplicity has been a liability from the beginning.

The new system is fiercely ambitious, authoritarian, technologically sophisticated, and disruptive

The Apple chairman as corporate tyrant and consumer saint

An attempt to build a more empathic Facebook beyond the click of a button

Coders are 'makers.' But what exactly are they making?

And the scariest part is your emotions may be up for sale

A threat assessment