It is not news anymore that the United States is deeply polarized along partisan lines. In recent decades, ours has become a body politic consumed by fear and loathing, willing to attribute nefarious ...

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, drones have promised a way to reconcile military effectiveness with unintended consequences. These unmanned aircraft help keep soldiers safer and ...

Twitter announced Tuesday a new policy to combat “dehumanizing language,” as it continues searching for ways to make its platform more hospitable. Users will not be allowed to “dehumanize anyone” ...

Twitter today announced it’d be altering its hateful conduct policies to prohibit “dehumanizing speech.” By doing so, it intends to patch a hole in its rules against hate speech to account for tweets ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trump frequently uses dehumanizing language towards immigrants and asylum-seekers in speeches. Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images ...

President Trump has warned that immigrants will “pour in and infest our country.” He said that they are coming from “sh*thole countries.” And he has said of immigrants “these aren’t people. They are ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Last August, Twitter’s top executives gathered at the company’s headquarters to discuss how to make the site safer for its users. Two attendees proposed banning all speech that could ...