A Political and Literary Forum
Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.
Amy Moran-Thomas
What Brazilian conservatives gain by letting the Amazon burn.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Allured by the promise of Big Data, science has shortchanged causal explanation in favor of data-driven prediction. But ultimately we must ask why.
Tim Maudlin
Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but this view of science has its own political history: it was developed, in part, as an anti-communist tool of the Cold War.
Michael D. Gordin
A reading list for our time of climate crisis.
Rosie Gillies, Boston Review
The Anthropocene challenges liberalism’s vision of permanent progress. So why has it become another technocratic tool of liberal bureaucracy?
Geoff Mann
Two new books from intellectual giants Robert Plomin and Nicholas Christakis revive the “nature vs. nurture” debate about what makes people different from one another.
C. Brandon Ogbunu, C. Malik Boykin
Harm reduction strategies have their roots in 1980s HIV activism, but they are starting to spread in rural America in response to the opioid crisis.
Lesly-Marie Buer
The meaning of fatherhood remains elusive, even in the age of DNA-based paternity testing.
Nara Milanich
What happens when we reframe complex social and political issues as technical puzzles? Two new books challenge modern cities' over-reliance on data and technology.
Ruth Miller
Beneath the jargon, a new UN report serves up a revolutionary response to climate change.
Troy Vettese
In the face of climate apocalypse, the rich have been devising escape plans. What happens when they opt out of democratic preparation for emergencies?
Bonnie Honig
“Megafires” are now a staple of life in the Pacific Northwest, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.
Jessie Kindig
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