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This is new, and this is bizarre.Okay, and no surprise. What might be surprising, if you haven’t been tuned in to content-moderation chatter for the past 10 years, is how much of an event this has become. Never before has a blog post about an... >>>

When Americans log onto social media, they see a culture war fought in seemingly every post and thread. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. But when you take political conversations beyond a news sound bite... >>>

Pain is universal, yet we're intent on turning away from it.Maybe this sounds strange, since you're reading "This is America," a newsletter centered on race, identity and how they shape our lives. I’m Alia, a reporter at USA TODAY covering... >>>

As college admissions officers struggled to understand my experience, I had to cross dream schools off my list.Simply because I didn’t pass a standardized test, I was labeled with a learning disability and forced into a special education program. I... >>>

Dr. Anthony Fauci, our most trusted health communicator for good reason, was right when he told a beleaguered nation more than a year ago that “the showstopper will ultimately be a vaccine.” It is, and will be, but only if we vaccinate most of the... >>>

Many who are incarcerated have suffered trauma. And help for Black and brown community is scarce. I decided early not to be 'doomed' by the system.Help for those conditions over-incarceration is especially hard to attain for Black and brown... >>>

Two-thirds of the public (64%) are optimistic about the direction of the country, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll that coincided with President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office. That’s a high number, but the glaring question it leaves... >>>

There are reasons to be skeptical of an effort to do away with Texas’s requirement of a permit to carry firearms in public.I am of two minds about... >>>

Facebook’s “Supreme Court” might have upheld Donald Trump’s suspension, but that doesn’t make it a real court.For now, Trump’s suspension stays in place. But the board has given Facebook six months to “reexamine the arbitrary penalty it imposed on... >>>

To send the right message, Donald Trump’s removal from Facebook must be permanent.The reasons for this are straightforward. In many ways, the question of sanctions for Trump is no different from the theory of how a society sanctions any sort of... >>>

How the concept has evolved to mean different things to different people.It sometimes seems all-encompassing, as if all forms of contemporary discourse must now lead, exhaustingly and endlessly, either to an attempt to “cancel” anyone whose opinions >>>

We cannot prosecute our way out of a policing system devised to protect the wealthy and maintain white supremacy. We need a full transformation.His act was so depraved that it compelled Minneapolis’ police chief to publicly testify against his own... >>>

There’s value in knowing what the subject wanted told about himself.Outrage, disgust, finger-pointing, and justice-seeking all make sense as responses to the ongoing Bailey-Roth scandal. But why did Bailey’s biography take off in the first place,... >>>