Algorithms are everywhere. They rule our lives. They decide what we see on social media, which ads get targeted to us, which route we should take to get places. If it used to be The Man keeping us ...

The history of the social sciences has included a succession of advances in the ability to make observations and carefully test hypotheses. The compilation of massive data sets, for example, and the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On March 15, Instagram posted a note on its blog that sent the internet into a frenzy: “To improve your experience, your feed ...