The eminent economist faults intellectuals who expect equal outcomes and treat individuals as if they were mere ‘chess pieces.’
Fake news is gradually growing more wings to terminate the trust people have for the internet. But some groups are bizarrely fighting the challenge. A subreddit “newsbyAI” is strongly illustrating how convincing AI-written articles could be.
Ridicule isn't enough. We need to call out the lies and rebut them accurately & loudly. This is more than a "story"
This year's special section at Frieze focuses on overlooked women such as Helen Chadwick, Mary Kelly, Sonia Boyce, and Berni Searle.
The doughnut of planetary boundaries and social boundaries defines a safe and just space for humanity to thrive in.
Complicated and often unpopular, carbon taxes are already ripe for misunderstanding, a vulnerability that's only compounded in a post-truth political world.
While most of us see ourselves as ‘not racist’, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives
Author Shannon Hale said she received some backlash for including her upbringing in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in her graphic novel memoir series: ‘I was a very religious kid. I prayed constantly. To erase it felt like a lie.’
A small bakery in Ohio sued the local college for defamation after students protested them. But when they won, the real culture war began.
Rupert Murdoch's oldest son has taken charge of Fox News. The family's role in the far-right network is coming under greater scrutiny.
Myths, half-truths, and obvious falsehoods about the SAFE-T Act have spread like wildfire. Injustice Watch breaks down and fact-checks some of the most egregious claims.
Whiteness is hard to define, but apparently it involves lots of vegetables, alcohol and the arts – and names like Yoder
A brief guide to the war in the Balkans 1991 - 1999
A short story about privilege. By Toby Morris.
'Our son reported that his classmates, without any collective decision, had simply gone back to the old system, regardless of the new signage: Boys were using the former boys’ rooms, girls the former girls’ rooms.'
Journalist Yomi Adegoke discussed her debut fiction novel "The List" with The Trouble Club, and the issue of Internet trials.
She is believed to have been shot repeatedly.
The culture war that so defines current debates between the left and right sides of politics has its history in the barmy theory of ‘cultural Marxism’
Samantha Mostyn has a very different CV compared to the previous 10 governors-general.
On Saturday, Stevenson will receive the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award. We sat down with him to discuss how society can better insure that justice is the product of its justice system and how we can better come to terms with our history and the impact that history has on us today.
The wealth of the seven richest people in Australia is greater than the nation's bottom 1.73 million households combined, and policies in the federal government's budget will only make that gap grow larger, the Australia Institute has warned.
Minority is a word with harsh connotations. A newer term, minoritized, should be used instead, and this is why.
In the Roberts Court, trends have suggested a general rightward shift among most of the justices (despite the health care ruling).
In numerous states nationwide.
. George Lakoff: Now that we understand how Trump uses Twitter to divert and distract, many of you have asked how we can respond. This handy chart by Greg Gibilisco contains useful information abou…
In several TikTok videos, a teaching assistant from Arizona, Jay, shared that he was fired from his job after calling out the school administrators for putting him in charge of a class that he had no qualifications to teach.
Today, news broke that the University of Chicago had issued a letter to all incoming Freshmen warning that the school is not a “safe space” and that students should expect to be “challenged”. Most…
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David Becker was accused of assaulting two of his high school classmates while they were unconscious after a house party in April.
(via Progressive Secular Humanist Examiner)
Thomas Sowell, renowned for his conservative philosophy, was once a believer in Marxism in his younger years; he told Mark Levin about his transition from left to right.
Google is removing from European searches an article I wrote during the financial crisis about the departure of an investment bank's then boss, Stan O'Neal. Does this show that the new "right to be forgotten" is curbing important press freedoms?
Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day. ....
When Minnesotan Andy McClure shared a post on Facebook about how conservative Christians react to various hot-button issues, it quickly went viral... before it was removed from the site for
Slavery never went away, and students need to know how it affects today’s world.
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The ruling sparked outrage among critics who argue the judicial system engaged in victim-blaming and upholding outdated notions about rape and sexual assault
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