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TBD | Who’s Afraid of A.I.?
Artificial intelligence—as it already exists today—is drawing from huge troves of surveillance data and is rife with the biases built into the algori…
2 years, 9 months ago
Debt Ceiling Dinner Theater
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that June 1 is the “drop dead date” by which the American government has to either raise the debt ceiling o…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Border's New Normal
Activated during the Trump administration in 2020, Title 42 is a controversial border policy that makes it easier to quickly expel asylum seekers. Ev…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why Richard Glossip Has Escaped Execution Nine Times
Richard Glossip has been on death row for 26 years and stared down nine execution dates. The 1997 killing that sent him to death row has been investi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Can DeSantis Beat Disney?
To hear Ron DeSantis tell it, “Disney” represents “wokeness.” To the state of Florida, though, the company represents tourist dollars and tax revenue…
2 years, 10 months ago
TBD | What's Going on at Meta?
Meta’s reached a sort of mid-life crisis. Between the layoffs, the stagnant metaverse and Facebook’s dwindling profile, does Zuckerberg have a plan h…
2 years, 10 months ago
TBD | What the Writers' Strike Is Really About
When television and screenwriters went on strike in 2007, Netflix had just started offering the option to stream content. This week, the Writer’s Gui…
2 years, 10 months ago
Charles In Charge
It’s the first British coronation in 70 years and along with the celebration, questions abound: What kind of king will Charles be? Who is Charles any…
2 years, 10 months ago
America’s Rich History of Gun Control
It's been nearly a year since the Supreme Court set a precedent that gun control laws should be judged against “America's historical tradition.” That…
2 years, 10 months ago
What E. Jean Carroll Is Fighting For
Author E. Jean Carroll has accused Donald Trump of raping her in a dressing room in the mid-1990s—and she’s suing him for battery and for defamation …
2 years, 10 months ago