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A recent study suggests that the algorithm used by popular ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft may actually discriminate against customers seeking transportation in predominantly non-white neighborhoods. Aylin Caliskan and Akshat Pandey…
On the afternoon of Friday, June 12, grocery shoppers who frequent the Trader Joe's on Capitol Hill in Seattle were met with an unexpected sign posted to the front door.…
DELHI, N.Y. — According to the New York Times' remarkable list of Black Lives Matter protests over the last two weeks, the largest outpouring of street activism since the Vietnam…
U.S. democracy remains in great danger. For the moment, President Donald Trump has yielded to public opinion and agreed to pull active-duty Army troops out of our nation's capital. Was…
"We need to stand up and say that black lives matter." Republican Sen. Mitt Romney's appearance at a Black Lives Matter march on Sunday, after nearly two weeks of civil…
Class of 2020, wherever you are, I had planned to address you on this graduation day. But how can I? Yes, I know that former President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Tom Hanks all took…
"The Osmonds," a Saturday-morning cartoon from the 1970s, always ended with a sickly melody that stays permanently in my mind. "One Bad Apple" was about unrequited love (from girls, rather than…
President Donald Trump's National Park Service plans to finalize rules this week that will allow hunters in Alaska to kill bear cubs and wolf pups while they are in their dens, reversing…
If a writer pitched Rep. Ilhan Omar's life story to a Hollywood producer as a movie, it would likely be rejected as simply too impossible to believe. We're talking about…
Health officials in Texas, Georgia, Vermont and Virginia acknowledged this week that they have been combining viral and antibody test results. Those results may well have painted an inaccurate picture of how…