Imagine waking up to a world where every bank account, personal message and classified government file is suddenly ...

Like anyone working in a creative field, I need to come up with lots of ideas. A few years ago, I decided to create an “Idea File.” I ripped out magazine and newspaper clippings and kept them in a ...

A new book, “Automating Inequality,” catalogs the ways government technology for the poor often ends up being punitive rather than uplifting. In Los Angeles, an algorithm helps decide who–out of ...