Technology

The causes of the websiteu2019s problems are far more serious than poor software design. They are baked into the law by its extreme complexity.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of Free Press, Michael Winship sat down with journalist and author Craig Aaron, who in 2011 became the organization's president and CEO.

Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy …

So far the failures of Healthcare.gov have been public and embarrassing, bandied about by Republican politicians who opposed health care reform from the start.

Critics believe the shift toward native ads blurs the line between news and advertising, public relations and propaganda.

US politics are “dismal, disgusting and infuriating.” They will be until we all “do politics.”

It seems telling that the most vocal people fervently endorsing many elements of the reform agenda have either a political or economic stake in moving those policies forward.

The America that believed in technology as a solution to all things has become almost a century later a landscape where ghosts comfortably dwell.

A look into the money pouring into Washington tells an anti-democratic tale of how a once-popular initiative is now statistically tied in the polls.

This year's World Food Prize clearly supported genetically modified crops, but the conversation was one-sided.