Marissa Nivison receives funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Gizem Keskin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

It’s Alexandra Reeve Givens’s job to think deeply about how technology and civil rights can intersect. The president and CEO of the nonpartisan Center for Democracy & Technology came to her job via a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 15: Traffic backs up on northbound Interstate 405 during the morning commute at sunrise on ...

Re “The U.S. Has a Marijuana Problem” (editorial, Feb. 10): I was cheered to see The Times strike a more cautious note on the legalization of marijuana. The editorial board correctly states that the ...

The Trump administration delivered a deadly blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules that revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution ...

Nearly 17 years after the Environmental Protection Agency declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten the public’s health and welfare, the agency on Thursday rescinded the ...

Virginia’s debate over skill games has too often been framed as a binary choice: ban them outright or sanction an unregulated, free-for-all market. But that is not the case. Our bipartisan legislation ...

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. Thirteen years ago, no ...

The artificial intelligence revolution is still in its infancy, yet many states are actively pursuing policies that will hobble innovation and competition in this space. One of the most problematic ...

Legislation seeking to create a regulatory framework that would address key issues such as electricity and water use from massive data centers continues to move in the Florida Senate, while the House ...

Last spring, Illinois county judge Jeffrey Goffinet noticed something startling: A legal brief filed in his courtroom cited a case that did not exist. Goffinet, an associate judge in Williamson County ...

OLYMPIA — Washington Democrats are moving to regulate artificial intelligence in high-stakes decisions, from hiring and housing to health care and lending, as the state weighs new guardrails for ...