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 […]
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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 […]
Cognitive Bias and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Scott D. Halpern, Robert D. Truog & Franklin G. Miller Journal of the American Medical Association As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic abates in many countries worldwide, and […]
Sex Robots Are Here, But Laws Aren’t Keeping Up
By Francis X. Shen The Conversation The robots are here. Are the “sexbots” close behind? From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation […]
The Confederacy Was an Antidemocratic, Centralized State
By Stephanie McCurry The Atlantic Americans are now debating the fate of memorials to the Confederacy—statues, flags, and names on Army bases, streets, schools, and college dormitories. A century and […]
How Trump Fused his Business Empire to the Presidency
By Anita Kumar Politico He has spent one out of every three days as president visiting one of his luxury resorts, hotels or golf courses. He has leveraged his powerful […]
The Brain, the Criminal, and the Courts
By Eryn Brown Knowable Magazine On March 30, 1981, 25-year-old John W. Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan and three other people. The following year, he went on trial for […]
Finland is a Capitalist Paradise
By Anu Partanen & Trevor Corson The New York Times Two years ago we were living in a pleasant neighborhood in Brooklyn. We were experienced professionals, enjoying a privileged life. […]
