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I found this New York Times exploration of the implications of AI interesting. You might also. Gift link. Other findings of this study pre...

This week two different US courts found two monster social media platforms -- Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and Google (YouTube) -- liable f...

There was a lot of life in those long years: wife and partner to Eddie Specht for over 70 of them, mother to three children in the 1950s, do...

  You know the rally you are on the way to is going to be large when the BART trains are full of happy people with signs. Such was the case ...

In a statement calling for the defunding of NPR and PBS, the White House complained about a story correctly describing banana slugs as herma...

In the contemporary USofA, girls and boys take different paths. The following visuals document the different life choices and life trajector...

The school district in West Ada thought it was getting rid of the dread menace of D.E.I. when administrators ordered teacher Sarah Inama to ...

  On Monday morning, Vilma Arias spoke in front of a Faith in Action's banner outside Flynn Elementary School on Precita Park. She and h...

A glance at Derf Backderf's meticulously researched graphic novel Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio seems right on time today. This artist ...

The media are reporting this morning that Harvard University's board is refusing to be stampeded into firing their recently installed B...

The notion that using awareness of the injuries inflicted by the American system of racial caste to work to remedy those injuries itself con...

Dara Horn's critique Is Holocaust Education Making Anti-Semitism Worse? got me wondering: how did I learn about the Holocaust? (Previo...

Dara Horn's rambling essay in the current Atlantic magazine, Is Holocaust Education Making Anti-Semitism Worse? seems to be getting so...

Popular Info's account of why the College Board caved in to Republican Ron DeSantis' demands that complex content about race and so...

Cal Berkeley economic historian Brad DeLong describes history as it was long taught in the Euro-centric world like this: [T]here was a time...

At the suggestion of a friend, I borrowed from the library a thick volume called The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every America...

When I need to restore my soul, I've long watched massive numbers of these made-for-TV college athletic spectacles. There are something ...

Here's a contemporary oddment that may be unexpected. Vast quantities of ink and pixels are devoted by sociologists and apostles of chur...

San Francisco's private Jesuit university -- that's the University of San Francisco -- threw itself a $100,000 holiday party last ev...

Did you know that Arizona -- otherwise known as home to xenophobic politicians like Kari Lake and former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio ...