Sometimes, time is truly a flat circle. The band Metallica played live for the gaming convention BlizzCon. The convention, as is de rigueur in the pandemic, was online. So the performance was livestreamed. That's when things got weird. On…

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As I noted when we met six weeks ago, I will be using the weekends for single pieces after wearing you out all week with shorter takes. Sometimes this will be an excerpt from my memoir-in-progress or on Sundays a career-spanning profile in music…

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Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security adviser under President Obama, says that he had to meet with Israel lobbyists as much as all other interest groups combined; that these lobbyists were a tiny segment of the American Jewish community, the…

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Electronic Frontier Foundation – Joe Mullin – Feb 23, 1:31 PM

During the pandemic, a dangerous business has prospered: invading students' privacy with proctoring software and apps. In the last year, we've seen universities compel students to download apps that collect their face images, driver's license data…

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