It might not feel like it, but the election is working
The election process is working. A long-building “chaos” narrative being pushed by…
Election robocalls: what we know and what we don’t
Millions of voters across the US received robocalls and texts encouraging them to stay…
Alumni Helping Alumni
Cardinal and Gray Society members who would like to sign up for the Alumni Helping Alu…
Resources for being antiracist
The 2020 “Support Black Lives at MIT” petition by the Black Graduate Student Associati…
California looks to ban gas guzzlers – but legal hurdles abound
California Governor Gavin Newsom made a bold attempt today to ban sales of new gas-guz…
Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem
When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would stop accepting political advertis…
Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine, and nobody knows if it’s legal or if it works
Preston Estep was alone in a borrowed laboratory, somewhere in Boston. No big company,…
It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans
Twitter is perfect as a megaphone for the far right: its trending topics are easy to g…
If you’re over 75, catching covid-19 can be like playing Russian roulette
Are you hiding from covid-19? I am. The reason is simple: the high chance of death fro…
How Reddit kicked off a day of bans for Trump and the far right
The news: Early on Monday, Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a once-notorious pro-Trump for…
A drug that cools the body’s reaction to Covid-19 appears to save lives
In an advance towards conquering covid-19, doctors in Michigan say an antibody drug ma…
Public policies in the age of digital disruption
We are witnessing a new wave of technological progress with enormous potential to prof…
Maybe it’s time to retire the idea of “going viral”
For years we’ve been using the phrase “gone viral” to describe something that becomes …
“The first day was really hard”: Life as a contact tracer
As American states weigh the possibility of reopening services in the face of the covi…
The global AI agenda: Asia-Pacific
This report is part of “The global AI agenda,” a thought leadership program by MIT Tec…
Historic commencements
MIT has had more than its share of memorable commencements, from the collapse of found…
How the Institute went coed
When Ellen Swallow Richards became the first woman to graduate from MIT in 1873, she w…
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