photography School apologizes for promo photo manipulated to darken students' skin for "diversity" David Pescovitz

surveillance IBM developed NYPD surveillance tools that let cops pick targets based on skin color Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Access Restricted: revolutionary teens escape the domes of All Rights Restricted and try for universal liberation Cory Doctorow

race Law and Order Republicans have suddenly discovered the undeniable injustice of "flipped" prosecution witnesses Cory Doctorow

usausausa TSA racially profiles Muslim woman, makes her show her bloody sanitary towel Cory Doctorow

usausausa Prisoners in 17 states are on strike, demanding an end to prison slavery and basic human justice Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Florida's prisons change tech providers, wipe out $11.2m worth of music purchased by prisoners Cory Doctorow

corruption How the NYPD recriminalized marijuana after the state decriminalized it Cory Doctorow

Business California home-buyers are increasingly reliant on parental gifts to afford their down-payments Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Why would a company give free tablets to prisons for inmate use? Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Seattle passes America's most comprehensive labor protections for domestic workers Cory Doctorow

corruption The American Conservative: "The Dickensian Return of Debtors’ Prisons" Cory Doctorow

politics Police called on state representative for canvassing while black David Pescovitz

law For the best of reasons, The Slants won the right to trademark racially offensive slurs — and now there's rather a lot of that Cory Doctorow

race Remember when conservatives were terrified of Big Government violently interfering with families? Cory Doctorow

Business We know how to fix homelessness, we just won't do it Cory Doctorow

china Street interviews: what Chinese think of white foreigners Mark Frauenfelder

education Tax-funded charter schools textbooks deny evolution, teach human-dinosaur cohabitation, endorse slavery and indigenous genocide Cory Doctorow

race Stanford prof Niall Ferguson conspired with campus Republicans to do oppo research on students who opposed invited eugenicist speaker Cory Doctorow

Kids Southwest wouldn't let mixed-race family fly until mom "proved" parenthood Cory Doctorow