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Race, Science & Nature

How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias

Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.

Amy Moran-Thomas

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Science & Nature

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Should We Trust Forensic Science?

Forensic scientists respond to allegations that their work harms the criminal justice system.

Wesley Vernon, Michael Nirenberg, Nathan J. Robinson

Arts in Society, Politics

Survey Says . . .

Polls are bad at picking presidents but still have much to teach us.

Claude S. Fischer

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Carbon on Campus

University fossil-fuel divestment is a well-meaning, but misguided, enterprise.

David G. Victor

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

As a God Might Be

The recurring, and often conflicting, narratives of technology and progress.

Meghan O’Gieblyn

Arts in Society, Politics

Pigs

Two men test their ethical and spiritual mettle by raising and slaughtering pigs.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

The Struggle for Accountability in Flint

Michigan law shields decision-makers from public scrutiny.

Anna Clark

Science & Nature

Rethinking Evolution

Symbiosis, not just gradual change, may lie at the heart of how evolution works.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Science & Nature, War & Security

Technology Derailed

Railways are leaving themselves at risk of dangerous hacking—and they know it.

Bryce Emley

Forum

The New Nature

It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?

Jedediah Purdy

Science & Nature, War & Security

Weaponizing Syria’s Water

For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.

Alisa Reznick

Gender & Sexuality, Science & Nature

“Female Viagra” Is No Feminist Triumph

The FDA has approved an ineffective drug for a disease that may not exist.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Forensic Pseudoscience

Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic.

Nathan J. Robinson

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