On a midnight raid in a rural region of Brittany, France, furious farmers blockaded roads with bales of hay. Other farmers dumped 3.5...

In the last two years, the Shanghai and Beijing Municipal Governments have been on a steady mission to, ostensibly, formalize the...

Vice President Mike Pence created much ado in August when he revealed “Space Force,” —  a proposed sixth branch of the US military....

In February 2017, Facebook changed its mission statement from “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and...

China’s social credit policies have populated news headlines recently, and it’s easy to see why. The social credit score (SCS), which...

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla known for his increasingly outlandish products, has flaunted bold visions for the colonization of Mars...

Squeaky chalkboards and overhead projectors have been classroom staples for decades, but the landscape of public education is quickly...

Like Janus–the Roman god with two faces–the Supreme Court case Janus vs. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees...

On January 13 2018, Hawaii residents and tourists were shaken by an emergency alert on their cell phones that read: “BALLISTIC MISSILE...

Technology and politics are deeply intertwined in America. Data analytics drives campaign strategy and policy decisions, and social media...

With the advent of self-driving cars, workerless assembly lines, and even robotic cashiers at McDonald’s, automation seems to be the way...

A humanoid robot named Sophia has become quite the celebrity as of late. A product of Hanson Robotics, Sophia has made appearances on...

The landscape of technological innovation in sub-Saharan Africa has been aptly dubbed the “Silicon Savannah.” The IT sector in the region...

Around the world today, 217 million individuals suffer from untreated but correctable visual impairment. Those in the more developed...

The Equifax hack shocked Americans in both its scope and preventability. The Social Security numbers of over 143 million citizens were...

Already one of the leading causes of death in the United States, traffic accidents are alarmingly on the rise. From 2015 to 2016, the...

In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to clean drinking water, and called upon states and...

Bee stings may hurt, but a world without bees would hurt more. The global bee population is declining at an alarming rate. Climate...

In 1962, leading libertarian economist Milton Friedman published Capitalism and Freedom, a treatise on the value of free markets for a...

It’s a rare occurrence for a large corporation to lose a lawsuit to the federal government and have it result in a hefty fine. But when...