Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 19—With the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church terrorist bombing, it's a good time to remember that ...

Back when he was chairman of the Republican National Committee, Haley Barbour wrote a book laying out his "Agenda for America: A Republican Direction for the Future." In the tome, he chided the notion ...

The pairing of fully autonomous drone strikes and dehumanizing imagery can undermine public support for military action, even ...

Judging by the book cover, those who pick up “Making Monsters” might think they’re about to read a spooky tale of demons or supernatural forces. And while David Livingstone Smith certainly appreciates ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter locked the account belonging to the Chinese Embassy in Washington after a tweet stated that Uighur women in Xinjiang have been emancipated and are no longer “baby making ...

When you see the president or other politicians use terms like “animals” or, even worse, “infestation” (a term usually reserved for insects), they are engaging in dehumanization. People use ...

Dehumanization involves redefining the targets of prejudice and violence by making them seem less human (that is, less civilized or less sentient) than other people. The classic strategy for this is ...

The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 was supposed to herald a new era for Jews, a rebirth after centuries of discrimination and pogroms that culminated in the horrors of the Holocaust in the ...

Thanks to technology, we can work remotely, interacting with colleagues online rather than face to face. We can order our groceries and meals through delivery apps, so we don’t have to go out to ...

Like every other major social media company since the 2016 election, Twitter has spent the past year and a half arguing with itself and its users over how to police harmful speech on its platform. The ...

It has long been thought that when people characterized others as less-than-human, it was an expression of extreme dislike. New research shows that in fact judgements about dislike and dehumanization ...