Depending on how algorithms are trained, they could be significantly more accurate when identifying white faces than African American ones.

• Clare Garvie and Jonathan Frankle
• 10:40 AM ET

The Fox talent show, ending with its series finale tonight, offered rare glimpses of humanity in primetime entertainment.

• Conor Friedersdorf
• 6:00 AM ET

What if the employees best positioned to hire undervalued minority candidates are … white men?

• Bourree Lam
• 10:42 AM ET

Bill Clinton’s unforced error on the trail places the 1994 Violent Crime Act back in play.

• Vann R. Newkirk II
• 7:04 PM ET

Win or lose, the Democrat has already accelerated a major generational shift within the Democratic party.

• Ronald Brownstein
• 8:00 AM ET

Social conservatives and some feminists worry that the rise of streaming, hi-def pornography causes men to use and abuse women—but it has coincided with steep declines in rape and spousal abuse.

• Conor Friedersdorf
• 6:00 AM ET

Steve Mishkin's unexpected recovery is a case study in luck, split-second decisions, and the many, many things that need to go right for a trauma patient to get well.

• Apoorva Mandavilli
• 12:06 PM ET

The Vermont senator’s escalation is more semantic than substantive—he’s been critiquing her decisions on the Iraq war, campaign finance, and free trade for months.

• David A. Graham
• 10:36 AM ET

The British leader has acknowledged he had a stake in his father’s offshore trust—but says he sold it in 2010 before he became prime minister.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• 1:56 PM ET

The Russian president denies there was “any element of corruption" in details contained in the documents from Mossack Fonseca.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• 8:49 AM ET

Federal authorities also released the route the unidentified man took after the attack on Zaventem airport on March 22.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• 9:15 AM ET

The European Commission has proposed either modifying an existing rule on distributing asylum-seekers or scrapping it.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• Apr 6, 2016

It was easy to laugh at Toronto’s late mayor. But the punch line, all too often, was that he was an addict.

• Michael Lista
• Apr 6, 2016

The country offers little regulation and considerable privacy for foreign individuals and businesses.

• Marina Koren
• Apr 5, 2016

An exercise in taking the Republican front-runner’s foreign policy seriously

• Uri Friedman
• Apr 5, 2016

Regardless of which scenario prevails, there’s likely to be conflict in Cleveland.

• Norm Ornstein
• 11:53 AM ET

A survey reveals how little commentators know about what students think about the First Amendment.

• Vann R. Newkirk II
• 7:00 AM ET

Most Donald Trump voters are civically disengaged—a fact that may yet cost him the nomination.

• Yoni Appelbaum
• 6:00 AM ET

The Vermont senator erases his rival’s national lead in a new PRRI / The Atlantic poll, even as he struggles to close the delegate gap.

• Russell Berman
• 6:00 AM ET

It's not too late for Trump or an anti-Trump to make a credible independent bid.

• Russell Berman
• Apr 6, 2016

The Republican front-runner’s appeal seems rooted in a distinctive political culture—born in the British borderlands, and still flourishing in America’s southern highlands.

• Yoni Appelbaum
• Apr 6, 2016

The shrimping industry is fraught with human-rights abuses. One startup thinks their plant-based seafood might be the answer.

• Olga Khazan
• 8:00 AM ET

A U.S. attempt to stem Chinese cybersecurity breaches was thwarted by the revelation that the two countries were actually doing similar things.

• Fred Kaplan
• Apr 6, 2016

A journalist has penned the first chronology of the largest war fought on the Internet—the Great War of EVE Online.

• Robinson Meyer
• Apr 6, 2016

After centuries of innovation, it faces an uncertain future: an Object Lesson.

• Sara Polsky
• Apr 6, 2016

“If the only way to convincingly imagine a world without Internet is to imagine a world without civilization, then to a first approximation, the Internet has become our civilization.”

• Blake Snow
• Apr 5, 2016

And a lesson that media companies have had to learn again and again and again.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• Apr 5, 2016

The editors are betting that anonymity can help creativity to thrive.

• Nathan Smith
• Apr 5, 2016

The FX series wasn’t a traditional whodunnit—but that’s precisely why it resonated with viewers so much.

• Lenika Cruz
• 2:25 PM ET

The teaser trailer for the first ‘Star Wars anthology film’ promises a nostalgic thrill-ride.

• David Sims
• 11:20 AM ET

A New York judge’s dismissal of rape allegations cites statutes of limitations and other issues unrelated to Dr. Luke’s guilt or innocence.

• Spencer Kornhaber
• 8:22 AM ET

The Melissa McCarthy vehicle is the latest comedy to fall victim to the pitfall of the pratfall.

• Megan Garber
• 11:15 AM ET

The performer died on Wednesday, his 79^th birthday.

• David A. Graham
• Apr 6, 2016

Shows like Hulu’s The Path are part of an ongoing paradigm shift in television that favors the season over the episode.

• David Sims
• Apr 6, 2016

After 10 episodes, four Atlantic writers consider how the series illuminated history.

• Spencer Kornhaber, Megan Garber, Gillian B. White, and David Sims
• Apr 6, 2016

The well-being gap is widening in most countries—but what does that mean?

• Julie Beck
• 7:45 AM ET

The ngangkari, who treat spiritual ailments along with the mental and physical, believe that they can help their community in ways that Western medicine misses.

• Georgina Kenyon
• 9:24 AM ET

There’s early evidence that the mosquito-borne virus can harm and even kill fetuses in the third trimester.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• Apr 5, 2016

Urban areas are supposed to be healthier places to live—but according to new research, that advantage may be fading.

• Aarian Marshall
• Apr 4, 2016

On the Greek island of Lesbos, psychologists have only a few days to help the waves of arriving refugees before they move on.

• Shira Rubin
• Apr 4, 2016

A disease called primary progressive aphasia gradually robs people of language skills while leaving their minds intact.

• Ed Yong
• Apr 1, 2016

Terms like “low-functioning” are short on nuance and long on stigma.

• Nicholette Zeliadt
• Apr 1, 2016

A NASA orbiter marks 15 years of circling the red planet.

• Marina Koren
• 12:02 PM ET

Understanding the difference between awareness and attention might be the key to unlocking the mystery of human consciousness.

• Michael Graziano
• Apr 6, 2016

“During sleep the mind can be a remarkable engine of problem solving and emotional processing.”

• Julie Beck
• Apr 5, 2016

Zika and Ebola get the headlines, but pathogens that threaten livestock could be even more dangerous for humans.  

• Ed Yong
• Apr 5, 2016

From the Hamburglar to boosted almond trucks

• Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
• Apr 5, 2016

For centuries, women quietly played major roles in some of the field’s biggest breakthroughs.

• ​Elizabeth Yale
• Apr 4, 2016

How much will the sea rise in our children’s lifetimes?

• Robinson Meyer
• Apr 4, 2016

Mossack Fonseca kept its clients largely on the right side of the law. Indeed, that’s entirely the point.

• Brooke Harrington
• Apr 6, 2016

Researchers tracked hundreds of students in Baltimore to find out what top achievers had that others didn’t.

• Alana Semuels
• Apr 6, 2016

One sociologist says that there’s too much of a focus on giving out more college degrees, getting more people married, and making elite workplaces more diverse.

• Gillian B. White
• Apr 6, 2016

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to stop the deal between two of the world’s largest oilfield-services companies.

• J. Weston Phippen
• Apr 6, 2016

The news comes days after the U.S. Treasury Department announced rules that targeted such deals.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• Apr 6, 2016

Pushing for greater transparency is an important first step.

• Bourree Lam
• Apr 5, 2016

Two options exist: increase revenues or cut benefits. The problem is figuring out which is fairer.

• Bourree Lam
• Apr 5, 2016

How a New Hampshire school gives its students more responsibility—and freedom—to shape their academic lives

• Emily Richmond
• Apr 6, 2016

Grappling with the way books make students feel should be part of the high-school English curriculum.

• Andrew Simmons
• Apr 5, 2016

Some teachers worry about the growing popularity of books and movies about poor city schools lead to damaging myths about their students and communities.

• Melinda D. Anderson
• Apr 4, 2016

Three of the five largest school districts hire more security officers than counselors.

• Matt Barnum
• Apr 4, 2016

Princeton’s board of trustees votes to retain Woodrow Wilson’s name on buildings and programs.

• Alia Wong and Adrienne Green
• Apr 4, 2016

A new study suggests that low expectations from some teachers might engender low performance from students.

• Emily DeRuy
• Apr 1, 2016

In urban waste-material adventure playgrounds, children can build, climb, graffiti, and create.

• Katherine Martinelli
• Apr 1, 2016

The Panama Papers show how the U.S. state has become a favored destination rivaling the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.

• J. Weston Phippen
• Apr 6, 2016

A federal judge formally approved a $20 billion settlement years after the worst offshore spill in American history.

• Adam Chandler
• Apr 4, 2016

How many racist text threads among cops will it take for officials to recognize systemic problems?

• Conor Friedersdorf
• Apr 1, 2016

The city carefully planned its economic revitalization. Why, then, is it so painful for some of the people who have lived here the longest?

• Gillian B. White
• Mar 31, 2016

A prosecutor in Minneapolis said police were justified in shooting the 24-year-old black man because he was trying to grab an officer’s gun.

• David A. Graham
• Mar 30, 2016

The U.S. Department of Justice and the city in New Jersey reached an agreement Wednesday to overhaul how the city’s police works.

• J. Weston Phippen
• Mar 30, 2016

Desegregating schools by shuttling kids across town failed. That doesn’t mean the significance of the original goal must fail.

• Matthew Delmont
• Mar 29, 2016

The women of Kountze, Texas, have been fighting for four years to put Bible verses on their banners. Their case is a look at what's ahead for religious-liberty conflicts in America.

• Emma Green
• Apr 5, 2016

Young Americans might be leaving religion in large numbers, but for some, rules, ritual, and tradition are attractive ways to find meaning in daily life.

• Emma Green
• Mar 31, 2016

Non-religious families often find it difficult to educate their children without relying on conservative Christian curricula and communities.

• Jaweed Kaleem
• Mar 30, 2016

Finding love within the Zoroastrian community can be complicated, especially because interfaith couples aren’t always accepted.

• Menachem Wecker
• Mar 27, 2016

Young, LGBT Latter-day Saints can’t live the ideal life of marriage and family described in their religion. But deciding to leave isn't straightforward.

• Frances Johnson
• Mar 24, 2016

A new generation of young leaders in Baltimore are largely organizing outside of congregations. What does this mean for their movement—and for the church?

• Emma Green
• Mar 22, 2016