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Election 2020

Does Google Secretly Manipulate Us To Vote for Democrats? The Evidence Is Flimsy.

Republicans have seized on the dubious claims of a psychologist who thinks Big Tech is shifting millions of votes to the left.

Justin Monticello | 10.8.2020 1:50 PM

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New York Times

A Conservative Purge at The New York Times Will Only Hurt The New York Times

If conservatives don't like The New York Times, they don't have to read it. Unlike in the not-so-distant past, you now have endless media options.

Steven Greenhut | 7.24.2020 8:00 AM

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Psychology/Psychiatry

When Choosing What To Believe, People Often Choose Morality Over Hard Evidence

In new studies, many people "reported that morally good beliefs require less evidence to be justified, and that, in some circumstances, a morally good belief can be justified even in the absence of sufficient evidence."

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.22.2020 4:00 PM

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Moral Panic

American Airlines Reportedly Accused a Black Social Worker of Kidnapping the White Child In Her Care. Now She's Suing.

Never mind the court order showing the child as a dependent in her care.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.17.2020 1:40 PM

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Junk science

A Famous Study Found That Blind Auditions Reduced Sexism in the Orchestra. Or Did It?

More implicit bias research comes under scrutiny

Robby Soave | 10.22.2019 10:00 AM

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Death Penalty

If Bill Barr Brings Back Federal Executions, Innocent People Will Die

We need to leave ourselves room for making good when we inevitably convict the wrong people.

J.D. Tuccille | 7.30.2019 7:00 AM

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Book Reviews

How Biased Are We, Really?

A new book offers a tour of the modern study of race and racism.

Jesse Singal | 6.30.2019 6:00 AM

University of Minnesota

Bias

University of Minnesota Food Service Worker Says 'Hello' in Japanese to Asian-American Student, Who Files a Bias Report

"These type of microaggressions occur too often on campus."

Robby Soave | 6.18.2019 4:15 PM

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Algorithms

What If the Algorithms Are Racist?

Ronald Bailey | 1.1.2019 12:00 PM

Political Ignorance

Why We Need Ideology

Niskanen Center President Jerry Taylor argues that we should reject libertarianism and other ideologies in favor of "moderation." But, in truth, we cannot and should not abjure ideology. Trying to do so is likely to increase bias, not curb it.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.2.2018 4:41 PM

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Television

Law & Order: Hate Crimes Is a Bad Idea Built on Worse Statistics

But if the show must exist, I have some ripped-from-the-headlines ideas for upcoming plots.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.6.2018 12:38 PM

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Twitter

Trump Says 'Shadow-Banning' Conservatives on Twitter Is 'Illegal,' Promises Investigation

Trump used Twitter to blast Twitter for allegedly censoring several prominent conservative leaders.

Joe Setyon | 7.26.2018 11:30 AM

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Twitter

Twitter 'Shadow Bans' Affect Some Conservative Leaders but Not Their Liberal Counterparts

Devin Nunes gets the Richard Spencer treatment.

Joe Setyon | 7.25.2018 4:30 PM

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Florida

Florida Police Chief Charged with Arresting Random Black Men to Improve His Department's Record

Former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano is accused of arrested black men for burglaries to boost the department's image.

Zuri Davis | 7.16.2018 10:00 AM

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College

2 in 5 Top-Ranking Liberal Arts Schools Have No Full-Time Republican Professors

New study explores liberal bias of university faculty-it's worse than we thought

Liz Wolfe | 5.17.2018 11:20 AM

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John Stossel

Stossel: Deceitful Bias in The New York Times

The New York Times drives John Stossel crazy. He wants to rip it up, because so many stories have a left-wing bias.

John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 12.5.2017 1:15 PM

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Bias

Bias Response Teams Thwarted in Their Goal of a Sensitive Campus by the First Amendment

How can you re-program the thinking of boorish college students when their free speech guarantees get in the way?

Liz Wolfe | 10.23.2017 5:00 PM

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Media

The Price of Press Bias

When the press tilts in favor of higher taxes and more regulation, democracy is indeed distorted.

Ira Stoll | 7.18.2017 3:00 PM

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Hate crimes

No Rise in Hate-Crime Rate Since 2004

"Hate crimes" suspected to be motivated by racial bias have dropped, but those perceived to be motivated by gender bias nearly doubled.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.30.2017 12:15 PM

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Taxes

The New York Times' Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails

The Times news columns have been openly campaigning against Trump's tax cuts from the moment they were rolled out.

Ira Stoll | 5.15.2017 4:00 PM

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Donald Trump

The Cure For Trump-Related News Blues

But wait, where was elite media advice about dealing with news-related anxiety back during the Obama administration?

Ira Stoll | 3.27.2017 4:00 PM

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Experts

The Limits of Expertise

A defense of experts exhibits the very problems it complains about.

Noah Berlatsky | 3.26.2017 6:00 AM

Media

Glenn Greenwald on Media Bias

Not to the left, not to the right, but to the powerful

Jesse Walker | 10.26.2012 12:58 PM

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