Cover Story
Are Robots Going to Steal Our Jobs?
Many technologists think so, but economists aren't so easily convinced.
Features
The Indestructible Idea of the Basic Income
Is this the only policy proposal Tom Paine, Huey Long, Milton Friedman, Timothy Leary, and Sam Altman can agree on?
Interview
Free Speech, No Shit
Brewery founder Jim Caruso doesn't give a flying dog what you think of him.
Topics
Armless Droid Calls Cops After Being Assaulted by Drunken Man
The future of human-robot relations is silly and sensible, not sinister.
Chelsea Clinton and the Democrats' Dullard Dynasty
As the pendulum swings against the GOP, an exhausted opposition looks to nothingburgers like Chelsea Clinton.
Culture
We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier
Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.
Books
God and Man at the FBI
Dissident and offbeat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.