The Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Big Business
Reading Time: 14 minutes The leader of an LA-based nonprofit talks about the trafficking of children — a growing scourge.
Truth Decay Part 2: News in a Digital Age
Reading Time: 14 minutes A conversation with the author of RAND’s new follow-up report on the diminishing role of facts and data in the news.
We’ve Just Doubled Down On Revolutionary War Mythology
Reading Time: 13 minutes A look at what we don’t understand about the Revolutionary War, and why that’s so important today.
Why Election Integrity Is the Whole Ballgame
Reading Time: 13 minutes A look at why a dysfunctional world needs American democracy to work.
The Frightening Rise of Algorithms
Reading Time: 13 minutes Why and how algorithms are taking over our lives, why we should care, and what we can do about it.
Who Should Censor Online Speech?
Reading Time: 18 minutes David Kaye, UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, distils the global challenges of our most consequential free-speech issue.
Facing Human Extinction, Activist Wants to ‘Go Down Swinging’
Reading Time: 18 minutes Randy Hayes had hoped for an “elegant transition” away from fossil fuels, but now there isn’t time for even a “semi-elegant transition.”
Why Trade Matters
Reading Time: 24 minutes RAND senior economist Dr. Howard Shatz gives us a primer on trade and globalization.
Powerful Democrat Lives Large on Corporate Cash
Reading Time: 16 minutes Since becoming chairman of the influential Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) has raised and spent tons of campaign cash. Journalist David Daley shares the facts.
The End of Guns
Reading Time: 20 minutes Can tasers and electric pulse technology replace the need for traditional guns?