Ideas Bank of America, Wayfair, and the New Age of Corporate Activism More than ever before, employees are staging walkouts and boycotts to protest their own companies' business operations. Jared Keller
Economics Tech Companies Aren’t Just Donating to Democrats: A Look at Silicon Valley’s Contributions to Republican Campaigns Despite their reputation as strongly liberal organizations, the political donations of tech companies like Amazon and Google go both ways. Alexa Lee
Environment What Happens When You Tell Siri You’re Depressed? A look at whether smartphone assistants know to recognize and respond when their owners are in acute distress. Francie Diep
Social Justice What Tech Talent Shortage? Microsoft Trims 18,000 Employees From Payroll Like manufacturing before it, the Innovation Economy has reached a turning point, with jobs moving to places where labor is cheaper. Jim Russell
Environment Privacy Tools: How to Safely Browse the Web It’s not easy to keep your data private while surfing the Internet, but here are a few tools that can help. Julia Angwin
Environment Fighting the Child-Porn Problem With Digital Technology Governments and tech companies experiment with filters to protect kids from exposure and exploitation. Lauren Kirchner
News in Brief How (Not) to Slow the Spread of Computer Viruses Microsoft, without a touch of irony, says that a healthy Internet is one that quarantines infected computers. Michael Scott Moore
Economics Why the iPhone Won New research suggests that the iPhone's success is largely due to its ability to offer what other smart phones did not: Browsing was the killer app. Elisabeth Best