The soft bigotry of white expectations

The elasticity of human perception is a glory that is underappreciated. Some five billion years from now, our Sun will eventually evolve into a red giant star, begin expanding into Earth’s orbit and extinguish all life on the planet, provided there’s life there and the Earth hasn’t spiraled outwards.

U.Va. arrest reignites race conversations

“Yo, his head is bleeding! His head is bleeding!” shouts an unidentified eyewitness in the grainy cellphone footage of third-year University of Virginia student Martese Johnson’s arrest around 1 a.m. outside Trinity Irish Pub near campus Wednesday.