How the AI Industry Profits From Catastrophe
By Karen Hao archive & Andrea Paola Hernández MIT Technology Review It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed […]
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The Last Summer of Roe v. Wade
By Carter Sherman Vice Texas abortion providers sued to halt the law, but the Supreme Court didn’t stop the law from taking effect early Wednesday morning. Overnight, access to abortion […]
A Crusade to Challenge the 2020 Election, Blessed by Church Leaders
By Charles Homans The New York Times Evangelical churches have long been powerful vehicles for grassroots activism and influence on the American right, mobilized around issues such as abortion and […]
How Russia and Right-Wing Americans Converged on War in Ukraine
By Sheera Frenkel & Stuart A. Thompson The New York Times After President Vladimir Putin of Russia claimed that action against Ukraine was taken in self-defense, Fox News host Tucker […]
A New Germany: How Putin’s Aggression is Changing Berlin
By Sudha David-Wilp & Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff Foreign Affairs Within a week, Germany has undergone a dramatic transformation, shedding its reluctant and dovish foreign policy and committing itself to drastically increase […]
Inside Mississippi’s Only Class on Critical Race Theory
By Molly Minta Mississippi Today Brittany Murphree was born and raised in Rankin County, Mississippi, one of the most Republican counties in one of the most Republican states. She went […]
Transparency Laws Let Criminal Records Become Commodities
By Sarah Lageson Wired In April 2018, Adnan (a pseudonym) was wrongfully arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on the basis of an incorrect arrest warrant. A brief period in jail led […]
The Constitutional Right We Have Bargained Away
By Carissa Byrne Hessick The Atlantic The Bill of Rights exists to protect individuals. It protects the right to free speech, the right to due process, the right to counsel, and […]
How Child Care Became the Most Broken Business in America
By Claire Suddath Bloomberg Deanna Cohen was 20 years into a career in the music industry when she realized it wasn’t going to work out. On paper she looked like […]
Omicron: The Variant that Vaccine Apartheid Built
By Matiangai Sirleaf Just Security In January 2021, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS warned, “We are witness to a vaccine apartheid that is only serving the interests of powerful and […]
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