A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply-Chain Chaos
Early this summer, farmers worried that millions of chickens in California’s Central Valley might soon peck each other to death. The birds were running perilously low...
Europe Set Itself Up for This Energy Crisis
Bros says that the situation we face is not a market failure, but a regulatory one. Bros was involved in the liberalization of the French market...
Gig Workers Are Losing Their Hard-Won Rights
Not all of Just Eat’s orange-clad couriers were switched to salaried contracts, and the company did continue to use self-employed gig workers hired via outsourcing companies...
Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons
It’s not children who are committing these heists, of course. It’s people running jobs on the inside and the outside. Internet-connected cell phones and electronic money...
Don’t Call the New Federal Gun Law a Gun Law
“Yeah, I think that was,” Republican senator Thom Tillis says of Cornyn’s unscientific news clipping. JFK’s Legacy For Tillis, what truly unified the disparate group of...
Interstate Travel Post-Roe Isn’t as Secure as You May Think
The right to travel is generally seen as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, and this has been upheld by the Supreme Court in the past. However,...
The 2022 US Midterm Elections’ Top Security Issue: Death Threats
“We’re not the truth police,” he told the conference. “It’s not to say there isn’t an important role for calling out falsity versus truth, it’s just...
China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future
“China has gone from having virtually no electric vehicles to having almost half of the world’s stock of passenger electric vehicles, and far more of that...
Volodymyr Zelensky on War, Technology, and the Future of Ukraine
Ever since Russian forces started their all-out invasion in February, Ukraine has been hailed as an exemplar of how to defend against violent tyranny on the...
Who Owns 4chan?
By 2016, Nishimura announced that the costs of running 4chan were simply too high and suggested the site’s closure was imminent. In 2018, Nishimura attempted to...