Before a human recruiter ever lays eyes on your résumé, a machine may have already decided it’s not worth seeing. Software can sort, filter, rank, and reject applications in the blink of an eye. Some of these tools are simple keyword scanners. Others use machine learning and artificial intelligence to evaluate candidates across dozens of data points. That isn’t inherently evil. Companies drowning in hundreds or thousands of applications need some way to cope. No recruiter has unlimited time to read every document with total care, and technology can help manage that load. But there’s a world of difference between…

For the first time, a serving UK prime minister has gone on the record with a blunt and long-awaited admission: Russia did interfere in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Andy Burnham, whose remarks were carried on The Rest Is Politics podcast and quoted by the BBC, said that once he took office he asked directly whether Moscow had meddled in the vote that took Britain out of the European Union. “I’ve had the clear answer that, yes, there was,” he said. That single sentence lands with real weight, not only because it overturns years of carefully hedged official language, but because…