Trigger warning: This article contains references to child sexual abuse. As Donald J. Trump prepares to assume the presidency once again, we find ourselves confronting the dark undercurrents of our country’s foundations. The president-elect and several of his cabinet nominees have been accused of various forms of sexual misconduct, ranging from harassment to assault. This […]
But the Supreme Court’s anti-affirmative-action ruling still hangs over existing programs. “I’ve heard people being very cautious about potential lawsuits that could arise from perceived quota systems,” Marston says. “There are even some concerns about people’s titles having ‘equity’ in them—being scared that that’s going to be illegal or unethical at this point.” She sees […]
The glow of the tech bros’ halo is dimming and, in 2025, the computing industry’s sheen of glamor will continue to fadetoo. While other STEM fields are making strides in broadening participation in their workforces, year after year, computing, a supposedly innovative field, fails to recruit, retain, and respect women and nonbinary workers. For example, […]
One day after the presidential election, and in the days following, Black people across the country, reportedly as young as middle schoolers, received text messages addressing them by name and telling them that they would be transported to plantations to work as slaves and “pick cotton.” While the exact language of the messages vary slightly, […]
Donald Trump was already in the classroom when Brown vs. Board of Education desegregated schools in 1954. He was about 30 before women were able to obtain their own credit cards, in his 40s before a Black man led a Fortune 500 company, and in his 60s before the election of President Obama. Opinion Columnist […]
Rarely has American democracy felt so precarious as we await November 5. Will voters decide that Donald Trump, who has mused about suspending the Constitution, is fit to protect it? Will they ignore the warnings of Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly, and other former officials and ex-generals, about the GOP nominee’s fascistic tendencies? […]
Sear points to Lynn’s estimation of the IQ of Angola being based on information from just 19 people and that of Eritrea being based on samples of children living in orphanages. “The problem with it is that the data Lynn used to generate this dataset is just bullshit, and it’s bullshit in multiple dimensions,” Rutherford […]
Oct 14, 2024, 06:31 AM ET Athletic Club and Spain forward Nico Williams has said his number one goal in life is to fight racism. Williams, who was in born in Spain to Ghanaian parents, has suffered racist abuse in LaLiga. Editor’s Picks 1 Related The 22-year-old, who played a starring role as Spain won […]
I no longer expect video games that tackle the subjects of racism and discrimination through fantasy — as Metaphor: ReFantazio does — to surprise me. Those stories never go beyond well-trodden depictions of “racism is bad,” and I tune them out like so much white noise. But Metaphor: ReFantazio has done the work, and its […]
