How Fake News and Misinformation Are Stirring Ethnic Tensions in Afghanistan
Fake news, Afghan-style. Nicole Valentini investigates how deliberate misinformation and poor media practices are fueling hate speech.
Working Immigrants Have Been an Economic Windfall for America
Working immigrants, regardless of education or skill level, increase the overall living standards of resident Americans. T. Norman Van Cott explains.
It’s Designers Who Can Make Gaming More Accessible
Gaming remains based on certain assumptions about players’ bodies that often lead to embarrassment. Ben Egliston proposes some solutions
The Dangerous Allure of Breech Birth at Home – and a Problematic New Paper
Of midwifery, home births, and hubris. Hilda Bastian considers the problems with breech birth at home.
Sunday Comics
Sunday Comics — not what you’ve been sold. Congo square is open for business! I was there, as god is my witness.
Why a Market Model is Destroying the Safeguards of the Professions
Lisa Herzog considers the effect of neoliberal market thinking on professionalism.
The Green New Deal is Happening in China
The push toward a cleaner economy is being led not by the US but rather by China. Dean Baker writes.
Ancient Killer Whale Snacked on Fish, Sharks, and…Other Whales
New fossils of an ancient whale reveal what its final meal was. Jon Tennant writes.
Who Decided It Was Bad to Be Fat?
Globalization has spread the Western prejudice against fat far and wide. Stephen E. Nash writes.
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