Why police protests in cities like Minneapolis and Portland have been so violent, while ones in cities like Detroit and Baltimore have been relatively peaceful.

Right now, the scientists and public health authorities are running the show, as they should. Yet the humanities can reveal to them some traps they might do well to avoid.

In medicine, there’s often a temptation to rely on neat rules and tidy algorithms. That temptation can be deadly, especially when treating the novel coronavirus.

How mental habits and ideology may have led government officials astray in the early days of the outbreak.

An anesthesiologist’s take on the looming crisis in America’s hospitals.

A closer look at the influential Imperial College study reveals not only some potential flaws in its assumptions but also solid grounds to hope that there is a way to revive economic life after the coronavirus infections peaks.

AI is a creature of capitalism, and it will upend our politics. Third in a series on AI—read the first, on how we could lose our minds to AI, here and the second, on a new Turing Test for the 21^st century, here.

An anesthesiologist argues that the quest for “perfect” artificial intelligence is not just futile, but also dangerous. Second in a series on AI—read the first here.

How capitalism pushes people to political extremes, and how we might save it while rebuilding the center.

Why do public health and scientific establishments disdain tobacco and vaping, but cannabis gets a pass? The answer reveals hidden assumptions behind the neuroscientific approach to life.