As the ever-increasing use of services like Uber, Lyft and AirBnB show, it is safe to trust other people. But is it time for hitchhiking to make a comeback? On August 1, hitchBOT, a robot that had successfully hitchhiked more than 10,000 kilometers across Canada and northern Europe, was destroyed by unknown vandals...
As the dust settles in South Carolina, Ethan Zuckerman argues that as long as we treat each mass shooting as an isolated tragedy, there’s nothing we can do. When you read about Dylann Roof, think about the patterns he represents. There’s more than one. Over the next few days, we’re...
While 17 people died over three days of terror in France, 2,000 were killed at the hands of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Consider two tragic events that took place last week. A small cell of Islamist terrorists attacked cartoonists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Paris...
