But there is a fight brewing between telecom companies and the likes of Google and Microsoft.
Science, Tech, Environment
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Aaron Swartz’s Final Code
The death of an Internet freedom activist points to the future of popular resistance.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Faulty Hypothesis
A scientist argues that members of his field should support more Republicans, but ignores why his colleagues fled the party.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
We’ve Traced the Call. It’s Coming From … Inside Your Pocket!
Will smartphone hacking come into its own in 2013?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Still No Strong Links Between Video Games and Violence
Everything on the subject is hazy.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
This Goes Out to All the Ladies
Now that he’s been re-elected, Obama should reverse last year’s disastrous decision on Plan B.
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Will Massachusetts Voters Legalize Assisted Suicide?
This is the ninth in the Prospect’s series on the 174 measures on state ballots this year. Six years ago, Mesfin Nega was attacked outside a nightclub. He suffered a broken neck and a damaged spinal cord that transformed the previously healthy 32-year-old into a quadriplegic. As The Washington Post later reported, Nega had made […]
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Superbabies Are Coming
Maybe not any time soon, but eventually
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
We Blinded Her from Science
Why are there so few women in STEM fields? Hint: The problem is not just about “lifestyle choices.”
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Barry Commoner and the Dream of a Liberal Third Party
Obituaries of the environmental populist have dismissed his 1980 presidential run as a quirky personal misadventure. It was more than that.
