Biden’s Last-Minute Move on the Equal Rights Amendment Does Nothing
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was correct when she said, before she passed, that the ERA deadline is expired, and this has to “start over.”…
Supreme Court will decide if parents may reject LGBTQ+ lessons for their kids
Supreme Court will take up a dispute over grade school textbooks that include LGBTQ+ themes, pitting religious rights against individual rights…Civil Rights Leaders and King Family Mark MLK Day as a Special Call to Action as Trump Takes Office
Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same day as Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration…
JD Vance mocks Biden’s 28th Amendment announcement with Pete Rose Hall of Fame comparison
Vice President-elect JD Vance responded to Biden’s declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is now ‘the law of the land’ with an old baseball joke…
Chicago migrant community prepares for possible ICE raids after Trump takes office
Local leaders and immigrant rights groups in Chicago met Saturday morning in the Pilsen neighborhood to make sure the community is prepared…
Anthropomorphizing AI: Dire consequences of mistaking human-like for human have already emerged
Anthropomorphizing AI creates dangerous blind spots in business decision-making beyond simple operational inefficiencies…
Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts | Science
Persistent multiyear drought (MYD) events pose a growing threat to nature and humans in a changing climate. We identified and inventoried global MYDs by detecting spatiotemporally contiguous climatic anomalies, showing that MYDs have become drier, hotter…
Missouri lawmakers are going after voter-approved abortion rights. Voters will likely reelect them
Missouri voters last election approved a constitutional amendment that promised to undo the state’s near-total abortion ban…
Mapping the mind: New framework links brainwaves to individual cognitive states
The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking, language acquisition, advanced reasoning and problem-solving, and the capacity for creativity and social interaction. Understanding how differences in brain signaling and dynamics produce unique cognition and behavior in individuals has long been a goal of neuroscience...