Tag: Discrimination
For black celebrities like Oprah, it’s impossible to be apolitical
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, University of South Carolina
Oprah Winfrey’s rousing Golden Globe speech has many speculating whether the media mogul will become a presidential candidate...
Google memo completely misses how implicit biases harm women
E. Anne York, Meredith College
Workplace biases are back in the national conversation, thanks to the recent memo by a Google employee. The memo’s author...
How a job acquires a gender (and less authority if it’s...
Sarah Thebaud, University of California, Santa Barbara and Laura Doering, McGill University
“I’m not bossy, I’m the boss.”
So proclaims Beyoncé in a video in...
The Supreme Court, religion and the future of school choice
John E. Taylor, West Virginia University
The Supreme Court recently decided that Trinity Lutheran Church should be eligible for a Missouri state grant covering the...
The rise of anti-immigrant attitudes, violence and nationalism in Costa Rica
Caitlin Fouratt, California State University, Long Beach
Costa Rica is often thought of as the “Switzerland of the Americas.”
With a stable...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
