No, AI isn't making people dumber. It's just a symptom of a much larger problem.

Today's media is addicted to contrarian takes on everything. And those takes are almost always just attention-grabbing clickbait.

Debunking scams and disinformation has become exponentially harder. We need to dig deep into why people believe what they do, and how social media exploits their fear and anger.

We live in a world science fiction and dreams built. Then we let the worst among us turn it into a nightmare.

The 2018 midterms may be the most important vote today's generations will cast for science, technology, and the basic social contract in America. The future is at stake, literally.

For millennials, the first step to happiness and a productive life may to forget pretty much everything boomer culture tried to teach them.

The media and boomers are obsessed with millennial and college phenomena that are barely a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things.

In most fields, bleeding edge research is conducted in academic labs, not corporate bullpens. In computer science, that's often not the case.

Tenure is not a magical keep-your-job-forever-no-matter-what card. It's vital protection for scientists whose research might not sit well with ideologues and partisan tribalists on college boards.

The trajectory of American higher education is simply unsustainable and something has to give sooner rather than later.

Yes, you absolutely can go overboard and turn cultural sensitivity into something very, very toxic.

John Oliver tackled the state of sexual education in America and that state is disturbing to put it mildly...

No Child Left Behind's series of tests was supposed to help American education. It did the exact opposite.

Bureaucrats generally don't like creative, fair solutions to complicated problems, so it's no surprise they're making a mess of social activism on campus.

If taxpayers are going to pay for college, we'll have to make sure that a college education actually yields gainful employment.