This isn’t a data-sharing agreement—it is a secret government programme that turns the Department for Education into a border control force. The United Kingdom’s education department is encouraging teachers to spy and report on children of illegal immigrants and to create a “hostile environment” for them
Our state government can no longer be classified as a full democracy. When it comes to the integrity of the voting district boundaries no country has ever received as low a score as the 7/100 North Carolina received. By measures of electoral integrity, North Carolina rates only as partly-
The past year has been bad—but what made it bad, more or less? To find out, we asked a group of writers and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2016, and what were the least?
Climate deniers are in trouble over heavy-handed tactics again. A federal appeals court okayed climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation suit, finding that a reasonable jury would believe that the National Review’s accusations of academic fraud, peppered with comparisons to child molesters, were baseless and harmful to his
If the boundary between science and fiction turns on the difference between truth and falsehood, the genre of science fiction might represent our post-truth regime more accurately than either disjointed discipline. From the introductory note to The New Inquiry’s latest edition, Science/Fiction, which features essays on the
Ressa and Duterte have been crossing paths for over 30 years. She first interviewed him in the 1980s when he was Mayor of Davao. In 2015, during his election campaign, she conducted a now infamous interview with Duterte in which he confessed to killing three people. A brief profile of
An A.I. created a carol after studying a photograph of a Christmas tree. Unfortunately the song is creepy as hell. ↩︎ posted Dec. 9, 2016 While some see this new prediction tech as like a new pipe tech that could improve all pipes, no matter their size, it is actually
Somewhat predictably, the fake news accusation goes both ways After a year in which journalists became a straw man for Trumpian tirades and tweets, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the outrage among media over fake news has rebounded back as conservatives claim mainstream media is the source of
Optimistically, the web is like 1970s NYC Which is to say, it’s a place where creativity flourishes amidst disorder. But pessimistically, it’s a failed state, where no central government means crime goes unpunished and key services (trash, spam) aren’t attended to. Here are five futures for the
We have absolutely no control over how many people are charged, request an attorney, or are found eligible. The mass amounts of #NoDAPL protesters being arrested has put further strain on North Dakota’s public defense system, forcing it to drop longstanding ethics guidelines so everyone can have their Constitutionally
