Category: Analysis

Alexis Haut|Analysis

"Pay us what you owe us"

WNBA players demand pay equity, turning t-shirts into bold protest billboards. Discover how fashion fuels the fight for fairness in sports.

Alexis Haut|Analysis

Say it with your chest: WNBA players fight for pay and justice on their t-shirts

Earning just 9% of league revenue, WNBA players are demanding fair pay. Their protest t-shirts are changing how sports activism looks today.

Chantal Flores|Analysis

GenAI art is enlivening the search for Mexico’s disappeared 

Families who’ve lost loved ones to the country’s decades-long Drug War are turning to an unlikely source to reenergize search efforts: ‘Ghiblified’ AI art.

Katica Roy|Analysis

300,000 Black women exit: July’s gender economy in four essential data points

Cooling inflation is a red herring. For the women concentrated in caregiving, hospitality, education, and healthcare, prices fell because wages and hours did, too.

Rebecca Billi|Analysis

Cop cities and covert communes: how architecture shapes urban conflict

Friction is inevitable, but urban practitioners have a say in whether it builds or destroys cities.

Xintian Tina Wang|Analysis

What does AI understand about fine art?

An experiment with ChatGPT reveals unsettling truths about how AI interprets artists from diverse backgrounds.

Katica Roy|Analysis

Why ethical AI is good business

Responsible algorithms minimize risk and return value at scale.

Katica Roy|Analysis

Minefields and maternity leave: why I fight a system that shuts out women and caregivers 

A child of immigrants, I trusted that hard work and talent would always lead to success. Then, I became a breadwinner mom and saw just how high the cards are stacked.

Katica Roy|Analysis

Why scaling back on equity is more than risky — it’s economically irresponsible

Under mounting pressure, major companies are slashing DEI efforts — and discovering that cutting equity can be costly.

Katica Roy|Analysis

Mine the $3.1T gap: Workplace gender equity is a growth imperative in an era of uncertainty

May’s financial indicators reveal a U.S. economy in disarray. Corporate-sector gender inequity is a major reason why.

Alexis Haut|Analysis

Innies see red, Innies wear blue: Severance’s use of color to seed self-discovery

With Apple’s most beloved show back on the airwaves after three long years, DO’s film columnist pens a valentine to all the ways season one used red to spell Innie liberation.

Ashleigh Axios|Analysis

‘The American public needs us now more than ever’: Government designers steel for regime change

“Everything we know about working in this world has the potential to be disrupted based on everything I’ve observed to be the philosophy on government from this incoming administration.”