Life turns out to be messier than computerized decision-making systems usually can account for.

It's true that the Chinese social media app is invasive. But so are Facebook and several other domestic social media services.

Public space, with its inevitable social collisions, is a much-needed arena for society to come together.

Education for thousands of the city's students was set back by problems in distributing laptops and in outreach.

A Q&A with astrobiologist Charles Cockell, who investigates how to prevent settlements in space from becoming breeding grounds for tyranny.

Recently, advertisers have begun to boycott Facebook. After pleas from civil rights groups including the NAACP, brands began to desert the platform.

Boosting the subsidies that help people get online would expand access to education, health care, and economic opportunity.

Technologies that threaten our autonomy also offer opportunities to build a more humane world. We need a new social compact to manage them.

Truth is impossible to regulate.

The foundational law governing social media could use an update. But that should come from careful consideration in Congress, not from a fit of pique in the Oval Office.