Why a Camera on Your Face Feels Different Camera-enabled smart glasses bring us into a different kind of privacy conversation. We already live around cameras every day, from smartphones and doorbells to stores, cars, and security systems. But most of those cameras are either held in somebody’s hand or attached to a fixed location. Smart
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The Warning Is Serious Without the Scare Tactics Folks approaching retirement have every reason to pay attention to what is happening with Social Security. But they should not have to sort through political scare tactics just to understand the truth. Social Security is not projected to go bankrupt or suddenly stop sending checks. The real
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When Racism Became a Business Model How Blockbusting Worked One of the most destructive housing practices of twentieth-century America did more than keep Black families out of certain neighborhoods. It found a way to make money from racial fear on one side and racial discrimination on the other. The practice became known as blockbusting. Real
Who Really Holds Power in American Democracy? The Uneasy Question Behind American Democracy American democracy rests on a powerful promise that ordinary citizens have a voice in choosing the people who govern them. We vote, organize, criticize leaders, support causes, and remove elected officials when enough people decide it is time for change. But another
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When Pain Forces Us to Look Deeper Awakening Does Not Always Begin in Peace People who grow up in painful or unstable families often start asking questions other people may never have to ask. Why does somebody who says they love me also hurt, control, neglect, or frighten me? Why does peace sometimes feel strange
Men Do Not Enter the Dating Market on Equal Terms People often talk about dating as though every man is playing by the same rules. Men are told they must approach, pursue, provide, impress, show confidence, and somehow prove their worth before a woman becomes interested. There is some truth in that description because plenty
Two Ways of Experiencing the Same Moment The Participant and the Witness Whether we recognize it or not, we can experience the same moment from two different places within ourselves. One part of us is right there in the middle of whatever is happening. It feels the anger, disappointment, excitement, fear, embarrassment, joy, and confusion
Race Was Not Invented by One Man The question “Who created race?” sounds like it should have a simple answer, one person and one date. History, however, rarely works that neatly. No single writer, pope, king, explorer, or government woke up one morning and invented what we now understand as race. The idea developed gradually
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More Than a Statistic Approximately 22.7 million Black men and boys live in the United States, representing nearly half of the roughly 46.2 million Americans identified as Black alone in recent Census estimates. But those numbers represent real people living at every stage of life. They are boys preparing for school, young men wondering what
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The Labor Market Is Not One Labor Market When people talk about the job market, they sometimes make it sound like everybody is standing in the same line waiting for the same opportunity. That has never been how the real world works. One job may have hundreds of people applying, while another employer cannot find