Zeynep Tufekci

We can learn from our failures.

What Robinhood and Facebook have in common

There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.

Acting as if Trump is trying to stage a coup is the best way to ensure he won’t.

A devastating surge is here. Unless Americans act aggressively, it will get much larger, very quickly.

Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be.

It’s not R.

How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?

A sociologist of technology takes on Jaron Lanier’s recent Atlantic essay

It sometimes takes decades to find out.

The new executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t really about Twitter.

Public green spaces are good for the immune system and the mind—and they can be rationed to allow for social distancing.

America’s coronavirus response failed because we didn’t understand the complexity of the problem.

“We might as well go down fighting.”

It’s just one factor in modern life that can increase connection in a world divided by the vagaries of capitalism, the disengagement of television, and the isolation of suburban sprawl.