Compstat and the Real Time Crime Center are at the epicenter of Bloomberg’s New York. Emmanuel Didier explores how they are turning public safety into a commodity for Wall Street.

Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff introduce the concept of “systemic risk” and the focus of Limn Number 1.

In the realm of U.S. homeland security, the word of the day seems to be “resilience.” Benjamin Sims explains.

What does a perfectly random archive look like? Finn Brunton explains.

Robert Foster explores how mobile phones in Papua New Guinea offer new ways for both companies and consumers to give and receive care.

Finn Brunton goes inside the Bitcoin blockchain to explore the weirdly meticulous collective archive, and how it might someday govern us.

Archives make the future. Editors Boris Jardine and Christopher Kelty explore how archives govern us.

Women under thirty and retired men might have surprisingly similar tastes for gambling. Natasha Dow Schüll explains how casinos have created a new kind of crowd.