The Singularity’s not coming to save us, but that doesn’t stop the world’s worst people from trying to bring it about.

The creator of Harry Potter could imagine the most marvelous fictional universe in children’s literature—yet she can’t imagine the inner lives of transgender people or the radical expansion of political possibilities.

They were just a particularly striking symbol of a city built on grotesque racial and economic inequality.

The late left broadcaster was a pioneer in smart, accessible, funny political media. His work is a model for us all.

Having principles is not an indulgence. It’s essential if we’re going to be better than the right.

Veterinary bills are notoriously expensive. If we don’t want to see people abandoning their adopted comrades or see their premature deaths due to lack of care, we need universal veterinary care.

By making private property sacred, free-market ideology places the right to discriminate above the right not to be discriminated against.

Russia is trying to “steal” vaccine research rather than “access life-saving information that should be the collective property of humanity.”