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Breaking Down Uber’s First Safety Transparency Report
OTI welcomes greater transparency from internet platforms around real-world harms, and highlights areas for improvement.
Can Water Help Predict Conflict?
Even if the specific catalyst of violence can be hard to divine, the conditions most likely to encourage violence are knowable.
Science Shows Benefits from Conversational ‘Turn-Taking’ with Babies
Scientific studies, from language development to neuroscience, continue to show why it is important to converse with infants.
Dual Language Learners’ Literacy and Language Development Through Pre-K
A new study compares children’s language and literacy development in both English and their home language over the course of one pre-K year.
In a World Full of Problems, We’ve Got to Fix This First…
Watch: Introducing DIGI
Prison Health Care Costs Are Higher Than Ever in Texas. Many Point to an Aging Prison Population.
Although there are fewer people in prison than there were a decade ago, costs have surged—along with the share of older, sicker inmates.
The Boot on My Neck
Joe Wilkes reflects on being Black in the age of Trump.
The Privilege of Paid Leave
Better Life Lab’s Jahdziah St. Julien examines the structural barriers to equitable paid leave for men.
What Do Puppy Mills, 5G, and Paid Sick Leave Have in Common?
State interference in local governance, observes Political Reform's Maresa Strano, is suddenly popular with a party that used to decry it.
What Might Baby Yoda’s First Words Be?
Don’t assume that just because he looks like Yoda, he’ll talk like him, Lisa Davidson writes for Future Tense.
Trevor Aaronson on Podcasts, Twitter, and Protecting Sources
New America 2020 Fellow Trevor Aaronson spoke about his podcast.
A Tale of Two Interns
With applied baccalaureates on the rise, community colleges like Green River are expanding the tech talent pipeline.
