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View More NewsRestoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety, by Peter Gray, Penguin Random House, 352 pages, $32 There’s one chart that anyone who thinks they know all about smartphones, social media, and kids should see. Part of its data—showing U.S. teen suicide rates rising steeply between roughly 2010 and 2020—has been widely shared by people out to prove that modern “screen time” has been disastrous for American youth. But if we pan out a little further, a different picture emerges. In this chart, we can see that the teen suicide rate rose steadily from 1950 until…
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Karl Popper invited us to be clear about the problem we are trying to solve. Testing a claim is not the same as evaluating the character of the person making it, and the latter cannot be asked to stand in for the former. Because it takes cognitive effort to parse data, weigh arguments, and assess logical coherence, we often default to name-calling, ad hominem, and guilt-by-association instead. This is a lazy and unscrupulous way to argue, and it drags down discourse, not least because its prevalence has made it unremarkable.A news item in the Guardian on 31 August by the…
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Fragmented regulatory regimes are limiting stablecoin adoption in international trade, according to Juan Marchetti, director of the trade in services and investment division at…
In brief Eight banking trade groups asked Senate leaders to tighten restrictions on stablecoin rewards. They want to delete language allowing rewards tied to…
For 16 months, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley professor Clyde Barrow has been getting paid not to teach. On May 15, 2025, the…
Bogotá, September 14, 2026—Peruvian authorities must conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into an armed attack on the digital website La Noticia Clave, said the…
Passports, selfies and home addresses were also handed over after the digital bank treated a fraudulent request as legitimate, the firm said Saturday, but…
Did you see the news? Everybody is freaking out about artificial intelligence, which poses a significant likelihood of killing everyone on the planet once…
the 9/11 attack. (NA) Today is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attack. I have written about my memories of that event and reflections…
Adam Abdullah came to the United States as an asylum seeker and was legally working in the country when he was arrested by federal…
The post Remember: The "S" in "Artificial Intelligence" Stands for "Safety" appeared first on Reason Magazine. Read the full article here
A majority of Democratic voters in Providence, Rhode Island, signaled support for aggressive rent regulation by voting for state Rep. David Morales over incumbent…
From his post last week: I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised…
The article is here; the Introduction: Judge Mark E. Walker, the chief judge for the Northern District of Florida, began his recent opinion in…