A new way of war is on the horizon. Already, robots and drones are replacing human pilots and foot soldiers in some roles, and in the future they will take over many more. The benefits of removing human soldiers from harm’s way are obvious. But there’s a price to pay when a society can wage war by remote control.
Americans have developed an admirable fondness for books, food, and music that preprocess other cultures. But for all our enthusiasm, have we lost our taste for the truly foreign?
Global warming is shrinking Greenland’s ice sheet—and heating up its movement for independence from Denmark.
There is more than one way to get a rogue state to change its ways.
A Princeton political scientist reveals that many of our worst fears about America’s voters are true.
From afar, America’s presidential contests often look more like playground antics than a shining example of democracy. But looks can be deceiving.
“Pollsters and pundits” has become a dismissive epithet in modern politics. Pollsters, at least, deserve much better.
The antidote to frenzied partisanship won’t be found in politics as usual but in problem-solving leaders who govern from the center.
The case for universal pre-kindergarten isn’t as strong as it seems.
For more than a century, the Oxford English Dictionary has dominated language lovers’ bookshelves. Now it is online, and a new edition may never see book covers again. In the digital age, will the OED remain a cultural cornerstone?