Editor’s Note: Sunder Katwala is the director of British Future, an independent think tank researching public attitudes to integration, immigration, identity and race. He is the author of “How to Be a ...

Katwala warns that there are new technologies being developed with the help of AI or revolving around brain waves, but he argues they should be viewed just with the same skepticism as the polygraph ...

In Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector (Crooked Lane, Mar.), Wired reporter Katwala examines the origins of the polygraph. What inspired this book? My background ...

As a teenager, I was in favor of scrapping the monarchy for a republic. That had seemed simple common sense, at first. Why should the highest role in the land only be open to those who were born to it ...

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THE polygraph test has been used in criminal prosecutions for decades – a silver bullet for police and prosecutors alike. Measuring heart rate, breathing speed and the conductivity of skin, it is ...