Just Disserts

How Apartheid Came to California

Racist propositions and a "colorblind consensus" are keeping California more segregated than many of its less progressive peers.

Just Disserts

Loving (and Making Love to) Machines

The final frontier of marriage will be between a lonely person and his automated sex doll, says robotics researcher and author David Levy.

Just Disserts

Combating Climate Change's Double Whammy

Scientist Katey Walter tells Gelf how the melting Siberian permafrost is releasing tons of greenhouse gases into the air—and why that might be a good thing.