Sue Halpern

The Human Costs of AI

Artificial intelligence does not come to us as a deus ex machina but, rather, through a number of dehumanizing extractive practices, of which most of us are unaware.

Weaponizing the Web

Nicole Perlroth’s investigation into the shadowy world of cyberweaponry predicts an unsettling future for global security.

Who Owns Our Voting Machines?

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.

The Drums of Cyberwar

All the critical infrastructure that undergirds much of our lives is at risk of being held hostage or decimated by hackers

In Praise of Public Libraries

A public library stands in stark opposition to the materialism and individualism that otherwise define our culture.

Apologize Later

How Republicans Became Anti-Choice

These days, the litmus test for Republican politicians and judges is opposition to abortion. This was not always the case.

The Known Known

The future of privacy in the era of “surveillance capitalism”

Lost in Robo-Translation

The Pocketalk device uses artificial intelligence to translate what I, or my Japanese counterpart, are saying. That’s the theory, anyway. In practice, as anyone who has used Google Translate knows…

Facebook: A Fake News Fix?

This diminution of news might be a way for Facebook to walk away from the public sphere—or, at least, appear to walk away—at a time when it has been taken to task for its overweening influence there.

Bitcoin Mania

‘Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World’ by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott

Our Hackable Democracy

The recent news that thirty electronic voting machines had been hacked for sport at the Def Con hackers’ conference, some in a matter of minutes, should not have been news at all.

Hacking the Vote

In the waning days of the 2016 campaign Trump’s data team knew exactly which voters in which states they needed to persuade on Facebook and Twitter and precisely what messages to use. The question is: How did the Russians know this, too?

The Nihilism of Julian Assange

Laura Poitras’s ‘Risk’

How Trump Used Facebook to Win

How the marketing tools of Facebook and Google helped sell a candidate the majority of Americans did not want

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

The Assange Distraction

As long as the public believes that WikiLeaks is working to undermine faith in American institutions, there will be no debate over the CIA’s development and deployment of cyber-weapons.

The Americans We Need

America is not just doing refugees a favor by letting them in. They’re doing America a favor by coming here—revitalizing our economy, sure, bringing new talent and energy and enterprise to every part of our society, but also helping shore up our culture at its weakest spots.