Will Oremus

Governor Jerry Brown has championed California’s high-speed rail project. But as he passes the baton to Gavin Newsom, its future is in question.

Your smartphone is addictive. Do you need to “Marie Kondo” your apps, put down the phone altogether, or use it as a “drug” dispensary?

In a city that has gone mad for tunneling, Elon Musk has managed to keep the spotlight on his Boring Company with a drip-drip of titillating news about his underground drilling project…

When people get in their cars in LA, one of the first things they do is type a destination into a smartphone. Millions of people worldwide use GPS.

Reading literature not only stirs up empathy, it changes our brains.

Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE  was invented to address one particular challenge in tackling climate change: often, the green choice isn’t the most convenient or most…

A research group at the University of Washington recently created a video of President Obama saying words that someone else actually said. But the video looked real.

When John Elder Robison gets an experimental treatment for Asperger’s, he feels like he’s suddenly seeing the world in technicolor. But that doesn’t mean he likes what he sees.

This week, DnA visits the UAE and finds oil. We talk to the curator of “Crude,” an art show about oil’s impact on the lives and cities of the Gulf - and the Southland.