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It's AI's world, we just live in it

In a candid cross-racial dialogue, Cornelia Gipson and Robert Jensen explore white identity, internalized racism, privilege, empathy, and why honest conversations about race remain so difficult—and so necessary.

A Long-Delayed Warning at Long Last (1964), U.S. Thumbs Nose at International Court of Justice (1986), A Champion in More Ways than One (1971), A Braver, Saner, Truer Rebel (1916), Holding the Line Against Trump Administration Sexism (1966)

The International Trade Union Confederation has released its annual report on global rights. This year the U.S. was placed on a new “watchlist” alongside 6 other countries where there found a measurable increase in worker rights' violations.

Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.

Fathers show changes in some of the same brain areas as mothers, but the effect of parenthood on dads isn’t nearly as well studied

Calls for ambitious policy responses to climate and geopolitical risks in the current food system are growing louder. Experts agree it can’t just be technology that bolsters food security; governments need a new vision to support it.

Social Security: the reason for the projected shortfall is the upward redistribution of income over the last half-century; the projected shortfall is far less money than the increase in military spending Trump is requesting for his 2027 budget.

We devised a way to add a protective shield over anticancer immune cells, allowing them to enter cancer’s neighborhood unscathed and decapitate tumors.

The D.O.J. has fast-tracked immigration cases for unaccompanied minors and fired judges who appear not to comply.