James Surowiecki's Blog

Answers without theory, found and deployed in different areas, can complicate one another in unpredictable ways, Jonathan Zittrain writes.

For a century, we���ve loved our cars, but they haven���t loved us back, Nathan Heller writes.

Sue Halpern on the U.S. military���s Cyber Command unit and its response to recent attacks, attributed to Iran, on oil tankers and a U.S. military drone.

Anna Wiener writes about the tech company Superhuman, the controversy over its read statuses feature, and questions of ethics in Silicon Valley.

New ���living drugs������made from a patient���s own cells���can cure once incurable cancers, Siddhartha Mukherjee writes. But can we afford them?��

Elisabeth Zerofsky reports on gentrification in Berlin and changes to its housing and living costs relative to New York, Paris, London, and other globalized cities.

Andrew Marantz writes about President Donald Trump���s social-media summit at the White House, which includes politicians and right-wing meme-makers who are popular on MAGA Twitter.

Carolyn Kormann writes on a resolution���put forward by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Earl Blumenauer, to Congress���declaring a national climate emergency.

John Cassidy writes about the ways in which economic news could shape President Donald Trump���s re��lection prospects in 2020.

Ingfei Chen reports on the conservationist Karin Vardaman, who has had to change many minds to bridge the divide between wolf-lovers and ranchers.