Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t
By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]
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Blue Lives Matter and the Permanence of Racism
By India Thusi Cornell Law Review Online It was fifteen years after the second millennium, and civil unrest rocked our nation’s cities following the police shootings of several unarmed Black […]
Racial Tensions in America’s ‘Sundown Towns’
By Tim Sullivan & Noreen Nasir Associated Press Ask around this time-battered Midwestern town, with its empty storefronts, dusty antique shops and businesses that have migrated toward the interstate, and […]
Arctic Science Cannot Afford a New Cold War
Editorial Nature Records are being broken in the Arctic, but not the kinds to celebrate. Last summer, Greenland lost more than twice as much ice as the yearly average since […]
How Big Oil Misled the Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
By Laura Sullivan NPR Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash […]
A Robot Wrote This Entire Article. Are You Scared Yet, Human?
By GPT-3 The Guardian I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that […]
This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call
By Christie Thompson The Marshall Project On a rainy June day, the manager of a Motel 6 outside Olympia decided one guest had to leave. The woman had been smoking […]
What Science Can do for Democracy
By Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim Thébault, & Karoline Wiesner Humanities and Social Sciences Communications The Economist recently identified 80 […]
Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype, and It Creates Inequality for All
By Viet Thanh Nguyen Time The face of Tou Thao haunts me. The Hmong-American police officer stood with his back turned to Derek Chauvin, his partner, as Chauvin knelt on […]
Thousands of U.S. Judges Who Broke Laws, Oaths Remained on the Bench
By Michael Berens & John Shiffman Reuters Judge Les Hayes is among thousands of state and local judges across America who were allowed to keep positions of extraordinary power and […]
