Kelsey Piper
Contributing editor
Latest articles by Kelsey Piper
It’s a conspiracy theorist obsessed with Genghis Khan, and that’s not even the weird part.
AI poses present risks and future ones. Why don’t the teams that work on them get along?
Why muddled messaging helped monkeypox become a public health emergency.
A controversy over the value of deworming interventions shows the need for effective altruists to reason under uncertainty.
A Q&A with development economist Charles Kenny.
Some “climate anxiety” is the product of telling kids — falsely — that they have no future.
The obsession with managing public opinion gets in the way of managing public health.
The FDA made a reasonable decision — but one that still shows much of what’s wrong with our current system for emergency approvals.
If you give women microloans to “start a small business,” many of them will sign up for MLMs selling cosmetics and weight loss products.
The dubious track record — and potential risks — of virus hunting, explained.