The Comstock Act Is One of America’s Weirdest and Dumbest Laws
The strangest thing to me about the recent court case on mifepristone is not that a Texas judge ordered a hold on FDA approval of a drug that was already…
Midwives Are an Overlooked Climate Solution
What’s keeping midwives from making a larger dent in the fight against climate change? To start with, there are not enough of them. The United Nations reports that there’s a…
The End of Roe Will Spark a Digital Civil War
Over the past 10 years, the primary threats to US internet freedom have come from abroad, as countries like China, Russia, and India have erected barriers to the flow of…
The Woman Who Became a Company Has Lessons for a Post-‘Roe’ World
In 2014, Jennifer Lyn Morone decided to protect her data in the only way she could as an individual: She incorporated herself. Jennifer Lyn Morone Inc. operates as a self-contained…
What Abortion Pill ‘Reversal’ Really Accomplishes
The American antiabortion movement is on a full-court press to remake the nation in its image. In June, its decades-long campaign to install sympathetic Supreme Court justices paid off with…
Hollywood’s Role in the Post-‘Roe’ Era
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Last week’s episode of Rap Sh!t featured…
Facebook’s Message Encryption Was Built to Fail
The details are chilling. Police raiding a home; a teenager and her mother arrested; fetal remains exhumed from a rural burial plot. When police dragged off a seventeen-year-old Nebraska girl…
In Humanity’s Collective Unconscious, the Body Is a Bad Dream
The first images that I tried to generate from Dall-E Mini were of cartoon characters getting colonoscopies. The website, now called Craiyon, houses an artificial intelligence model that turns any…
Why Some Video Game Companies Are Staying Silent on Abortion
Even so, frustrations are mounting among employees who want their companies to speak up. A recent report from Kotaku highlighted grievances from employees of ZeniMax Media subsidiaries Bethesda and Arkane…
Section 230 Is a Last Line of Defense for Abortion Speech Online
Forced-birth extremists are not satisfied with shutting down abortion clinics. They also want to scrub accurate information about abortion access from the internet. In a post-Roe world, defending online speech…