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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

Global Justice, Race

Reply to Dr. Agnes Binagwaho

Angus Deaton replies to Agnes Binagwaho.

Angus Deaton

Global Justice, Race

Letter to the Editor: Angus Deaton on Rwanda

Rwanda’s minister of health responds to our recent forum, "The Logic of Effective Altruism."

Agnes Binagwaho

Science & Nature, War & Security

Justice and Warfare in Cyberspace

The Department of Defense's Cyber Strategy Memorandum

Lisa Lucile Owens

Science & Nature

The New New Guidelines

Why do our ideas about nutrition change so quickly?

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Arts in Society, Science & Nature

How Patent Law Created Inventors

Alexander Graham Bell and Telecom's Founding Myth

Graeme Gooday

Forum

Curbing the New Corporate Power

Consumer prices are not the only concern raised by dominant companies.

K. Sabeel Rahman

Science & Nature

Getting Personal

Individuality can emerge even when genes and environment are constant.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Politics, Science & Nature

A New Deal for the Colorado River

What is being called a drought is likely the new norm.

Ben Merriman

Arts in Society, Science & Nature

A Matter of the Skies

More birds appear. Bending against the cold, I watch, name, and name again.

Dave Byrne

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Virtue of Scientific Thinking

Scientists have discarded the moral authority that previously accrued to their vocation.

Steven Shapin

Arts in Society, Politics

Of Popes and Dogs

The Church has always had a vexed, somewhat aggrieved relation to dogs and their status as things to be blessed or sanctified.

Colin Dayan

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Democratic Science

Getting government grants for research is harder than ever. Our system is breaking down.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

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