The Trump administration has rewritten Title X federal funding guidelines, steering the nation’s only dedicated contraception program away from birth control access and toward the ideological priorities of the pronatalist movement.
A Waymo robotaxi in San Mateo, California monitored two 15-year-old passengers in real time, alerted police, and remotely steered itself to a parking lot for their detention — raising urgent questions about autonomous vehicle surveillance and law enforcement access.
The UK’s Behavioural Insights Team — the government’s ‘Nudge Unit’ — used psychological techniques to engineer public compliance during COVID-19, raising profound questions about democratic consent and the boundaries between public health communication and state manipulation.