The real risks from “AI” we need to deal with NOW is how they are already hacking our brains to turn us into zombie cognitive slaves of people and systems that do not wish us well at all—with no...

Sharing casual moments from our lives on social media doesn’t seem to make sense the way it used to.

Invented stories, individual and social

My Dad’s Birth Certificate Said Vicente. His Passport Said Vince. New Legislation Would Have Disenfranchised Him

New Haven, CT – Today, Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17), delivered a speech at Yale Law School, “In Defense of the Courts and the University,” slamming JD Vance for calling on President Trump to defy ...

It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

Where all this goes is still up to us.

The president and his allies in Congress are targeting the financial, digital and legal machinery that powers the Democratic Party and much of the progressive political world.

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

Does a very long marriage help or hinder? Or is that the wrong question?

Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?

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The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

Everything is content.

Witnessing Mom, Dad, and half the country lose their minds. Click to read Dementia Times Two, by Kirsten Silva Gruesz, a Substack publication. Launched 10 hours ago.

Lawsuit accuses UC of giving racial preference in admissions to Black and Latino students

A large — and growing — protest formed near downtown Los Angeles on Sunday in response to President Trump’s crackdown on immigration and emphasis on deportations. The protest, which was organ…

Politicians and pundits have turned the word “Latino” into a blunt object.