Institutionalized racism
More black men are in prison in America today than were enslaved in America in 1850. More African-American men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions today than because of all the laws...
View ArticleThe easiest setting to argue about
Oh boy.John Scalzi is a pretty popular science-fiction writer, known in particular for Old Man’s War and Android Dreams. He also runs a pretty popular blog.Yesterday, he put up a post discussing the...
View ArticleLife as a Chinese immigrant in 1870? Pretty terrible, actually
Imagine you’re a Chinese immigrant in the US in the year 1870 writing home about your experience here. Would you write the letter in English? Probably not.This kid clearly didn’t think so, either:The...
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