The modern antiracist movement is harming the very people it claims to help, according to the linguist John McWhorter.
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Israel looks to deploy its “Iron Beam” air-defense system within the year.
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Have you ever noticed how almost all robots are racialized as white?
For too long, we've treated racism as a personality trait or a vague systemic menace rather than the result of policies and ideas created deliberately to benefit some groups at the expense of others. As a result, too many anti-racist efforts have collapsed into name-calling sessions, failing to achieve their goals. Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Antiracist, sees a better way.
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A team of Japanese researchers comes across a remarkably simple trick.
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The White House quoted the president as telling ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega that she's "never thanking."
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