What will generative AI mean for the racial wealth gap?
Big technological shifts have a history of keeping Black and other marginalized groups at or near the bottom of economic opportunities. Will this time be different?
The spread of global hate
Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter helped right-wing populists take power. Can they now help rein them in?
The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising...
In celebration of the United States’ 245th birthday, Holton offers six surprising facts about the nation’s founding document – including that it failed to achieve its most immediate goal and that its meaning has changed from the founding to today.
Alabama passes near total ban on abortion as part of ‘Stealth Campaign’ to overturn...
Architects behind the legislation want to use it to challenge Roe v. Wade, which recognizes the constitutional right to an abortion.
On Father’s Day: Poor Alphonse
“But other men were not my father. He never once stopped loving me his entire life.”
How this country fails its most vulnerable
A field guide to our threadbare social safety net...
Undocumented immigrants may actually make American communities safer – not more dangerous – new...
People from all social groups and backgrounds commit crimes. But undocumented immigrants, and immigrants more generally, are often baselessly blamed for increasing crime rates.
In 2021, let’s ring a global alarm—on inequality—that everyone can hear
We have to prevent our societies from returning to—our deeply unequal—business as usual.
Where the post office goes, so goes America
The post office won’t disappear if you hand-deliver your ballot this year.
Envision or perish—why we must start imagining the world we want to live in
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”