Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to name voice-to-text transcription errors — for example, you ask your bot “How ...

J. B. Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison ...

The 21st-century left has often argued that the solution to rampant inequality is income redistribution. But this may not be a silver bullet. What workers need is power over employers and the market.

In graduate school, I had a professor, a respected contrarian within his field, who was fond of posing the “Negro sunset” problem. It derived, as far as I can recall, from a well-known essay by ...