Maria Baer

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  • This is your brain on Google

    This is your brain on Google

    Nine out of ten people who use the internet on their mobile devices, use Google. In other words, it’s Google’s world and we’re just living in it. Do we really want this amount of sheer power unregulated?

  • From equality indexes to SOGI Laws, the LGBT movement marches on

    From equality indexes to SOGI Laws, the LGBT movement marches on

    The HRC excitedly announced that a record 686 of America’s leading companies and law firms now rigorously protect LGBTQ people. The lobbying firm has successfully weaponized the Equality Index as a formidable force of their obsession.

  • Billie Eilish and turning kids into pop stars

    Billie Eilish and turning kids into pop stars

    It’s not exactly accurate to say Eilish was “discovered.” It’s more like she was invented. There’s “talent management,” and then there’s exploitation.

  • It’s time for smartphone sanity

    It’s time for smartphone sanity

    Smartphones are changing us. And not for the better.

  • Consent in a culture of confusion

    Consent in a culture of confusion

    What, exactly, is consent? At the root of all of the confusion is the premise that sex is inherently unhooked from marriage.

  • Westboro and the power of a bad idea

    Westboro and the power of a bad idea

    It’s exhausting to talk about Westboro Baptist Church. This small cult, made up almost entirely of a single family and their spouses, has caused a tremendous amount of pain around the country.

  • Hollywood's 'Harriet': A real heroine and a powerful God

    Hollywood's 'Harriet': A real heroine and a powerful God

    “Sometimes it stings, like a slap in the face.” That’s how Araminta Tubman – known best as Harriet – describes hearing the voice of God in the new Focus Features’ movie “Harriet.”

  • Should we abolish prisons?

    Should we abolish prisons?

    Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez successfully grabbed another headline recently by tweeting that Americans should have a “real conversation” about abolishing prisons.