How Best to Train the Next Generation of Activists? Give Them Chores
Teaching kids to leave things better than they found them work not only on bedrooms and kitchens, but also on the world's bigger messes.
How corporate media has put the American public in a state of Ukraine-Russia psychosis
“[p]sychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain processes information. It causes you to lose touch with reality. You might see, hear, or believe things that aren’t real.… It can be triggered by… extreme stress or trauma.”
Mexicans in U.S. routinely confront legal abuse, racial profiling, ICE targeting and other civil...
Officially, the Constitution of the United States gives everyone on U.S. soil equal protection under the law – regardless of nationality or legal status.
An ‘unethical experimentation on children’: Digital rights groups oppose facial recognition in schools backed...
"The research shows that prematurely deploying the technology without understanding its implications would be unethical and dangerous."
Are community schools the last, best shot at addressing education inequity?
A district in the Washington, D.C., suburbs may foretell whether a transformative approach to school improvement can address longstanding opportunity gaps in education.
Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom
As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society’s agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.
‘Seattle is not for sale:’ Voters rebuke Amazon, re-electing Socialist Kshama Sawant
The re-election victory “has been a major repudiation, not only of Amazon and of Jeff Bezos himself, as the richest man in the world, but also it has been a referendum on the vision for Seattle.”
Yance Ford: The first transgender director nominated for an Oscar
"If my nomination can help in any way to advance the issues of trans-equality and protection for LGBTQ people under the law, then I am as humbled by that as I am by the nomination."
Robot generals
Will they make better decisions than humans -- or worse?
CNN fires interim DNC chair for leaking debate questions to Clinton campaign
Brazile, who took over from Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC chair in July, has been exposed by Wikileaks for emailing debate questions to the Clinton campaign ahead of time.