Teens Did Surprisingly Well in Quarantine
Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis / Getty As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the United States in March, work and school moved online, restaurants closed, and unemployment soared. The effects on ment
Black Lives Matter's Alicia Garza: ‘Leadership today doesn't look like Martin Luther King’
A licia Garza is not synonymous with Black Lives Matter , the movement she helped create, and that’s very deliberate. The 39-year-old organiser is not interested in being the face of things; she’s int
Watching the Outrage Over 'Cuties' as a Survivor of Pedophilia
Netflix I n 1989, when I was 5 , I spent several weeks in a children’s psychiatric ward. My father, who began abusing me sexually three years earlier, was outraged by the hospitalization because he fe
4 Museums Decided This Work Shouldn’t Be Shown. They’re Both Right and Wrong.
Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from The Hearst Corporation and The Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc. 82.20. © Estate of Philip Guston Last week, four maj
12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech
Top highlight Tech is more important than ever, deeply affecting culture, politics and society. Given all the time we spend with our gadgets and apps, it’s essential to understand the principles that
Opinion | When It Comes to Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward
When It Comes to Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward We aren’t very good at discussing trade-offs, but we need to make some during this pandemic. Dr. Carroll is a pediatrician and contribu
Charting a Covid-19 Immune Response
Amid a flurry of press conferences delivering upbeat news, President Trump’s doctors have administered an array of experimental therapies that are typically reserved for the most severe cases of Covid
'I used to do the piracy': memories of an 80s Wolverhampton video rental shop
‘It was magical to see the different films’: Bansal in a recreation of her father’s video rental shopPhotograph: Dee Patel/Outroslide D awinder Bansal is trying to pinpoint exactly when she realised t
‘Influencers are being taken advantage of’: the social media stars turning to unions
Influencer Amy Hart, who appeared on Love Island, encouraged her Twitter followers to join a union.Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock A my Hart earned her 1.2 million Instagram and 99,000 Twitter follow
Don’t Blame Social Media. Blame Capitalism.
Facebook and Google are collecting vast troves of data on us and using that information not only to sell us ads, but to addict us to their platforms, separate us from our friends and family, and fill
What It’s Like to Lose Your Parents to QAnon
Like many Gen-Z'ers, 18-year-old Emily doesn’t spend much time on Facebook . Recently, though, she started using the social media platform to find a roommate and look for scholarship opportunities. Wh
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
By Russell Means / blackhawkproductions.com / Nov 12, 2011 20 User Ratings The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980 , before several thousand people who had assembled from all over
The German model for America
In the mid-1950s, a decade after World War II ended, the town of Dachau took down the directional signs that pointed to its concentration camp. Visitors had swarmed the area — not just survivors of th
Babies' random choices become their preferences
By / Published Oct 2 Name Jill Rosen Email jrosen@jhu.edu Office phone 443-997-9906 Cell phone 443-547-8805 Twitter JHUmediareps When a baby reaches for one stuffed animal in a room filled with others
How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction
I n a beautiful meadow filled with wildflowers and birdsong, a man of late middle age wearing a faded camouflage sun hat knelt beside a clump of clover and prepared to break the law. Martin White remo
"Rivers of Blood:" The Legacy of a Speech That Divided Britain
On April 20, 1968, Enoch Powell, a leading member of the Conservative Party in the British parliament, made a speech that would imprint itself into British memory—and divide the nation with its racist, incendiary rhetoric. Speaking before a group of conservative activists, Powell said that if…
Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture
1. Media isn’t really real In the last couple of years, fakery seems to have accelerated. The term “fake news” appeared out of next-to-nowhere in November 2016. Source: Google Trends The press has pub
The Syrian War Is Actually Many Wars
Reuters / Khalil Ashawi The Middle East is a “troubled place,” President Donald Trump said Friday night as he described his decision to use America’s “righteous power” in a retaliatory attack against
What it's like being a woman with autism
For decades Laura James felt like a failure. Unable to "navigate the world" as well as those around her, she could not understand why, given her successful career and life, she often struggled. Then l
Britain: The Empire that Never Was
Why Brexit is the culmination of a British national project which weaponises imperial amnesia and nostalgia. Artwork by Marissa Malik Brexit sold the country a dream; ostensibly a project built on ant
My Internet Mea Culpa – NewCo Shift
I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were.* Last night, as I was falling asleep after a lovely Christmas, a thought popped into my head. I was thinking how lovely the holiday had been, and part of that was b
Maren Ade and Sandra Hüller Discuss Nudity and Feminism in Oscar Favorite “Toni Erdmann”
“Toni Erdman” is one of the most lauded films of 2016. It was won many critics awards and was named best film of the year by multiple international critics associations, including Sight & Sound, which
Pop-up populism and the splintering of Britain
British identity is fragmented like never before, with the rise of pop-up populism dividing people into 'them' and 'us'. Author PETER POMERANTSEV takes a deeply personal journey through Britain to fin
A Conversation with Maggie Haberman, Trump’s Favorite Foe
The Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, who covered Donald Trump long before he entered the White House and has received threats because of her reporting. Photograph by Bob Daemmrich / Alamy One of the saving graces of the Trump era is the journalism it hasinspired. Maggie Haberman is a tireless,…
Biased algorithms are everywhere, and no one seems to care
Kate Crawford, speaking at the AI Now conference at MIT this week. John Maeda (@johnmaeda) Opaque and potentially biased mathematical models are remaking our lives—and neither the companies responsibl
Why Photographers Don’t Get Modern Art
It’s understandable that the great unwashed masses of the larger population might not appreciate contemporary art. But you’d think that photographers, who are creatives in their own right, would appre
Planet of Cops – Freddie deBoer – Medium
The irony of our vibrant and necessary police reform movement is that it’s happening simultaneously to everyone becoming a cop. I mean everyone — liberal, conservative, radical and reactionary. Blogger, activist, pundit, and writer, obviously, but also teacher, tailor, and candlestick maker. Cops,…
West Midlands Mayoral Hustings – 2017
Do you remember 2012? When referendums were new and exciting and they came to us and asked us “Do you want a mayor?”, and we rose with one voice and said “No, we don’t want a mayor.” Well, the will of
The Factory of Fakes
The Egyptian painters who decorated King Tut’s burial chamber had to work quickly—the pharaoh died unexpectedly, at about the age of nineteen, and proper preparations had not been made. Plaster was applied to lumpy limestone walls. On the chamber’s western wall, twelve baboons with an identical…
AI Literacy: The basics of machine learning – World Writable
The question I’m asked most often requires some unpacking, so this first post will cover just this one topic: “What are the differences between artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networ
One day at Ikea’s biggest store in the U.S.
The country’s largest Ikea opened in Burbank, California, last month . At 456,600 square feet, twice the size of, and one mile away from, the old Burbank Ikea, this new store offers a lot more of everything people have come to expect from the brand: More inspirational showrooms, more lingonberries,…
Brexit, Pursued by Despair
The referendum was the flame ; Article 50 is the fuse. Today, after months of recrimination and fear, the deed was finally done. Britain’s unelected Prime Minister triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon T