We all see race. We can’t help it. What’s more, race can influence how we’re treated and how we treat others. We are all capable of racial bias. In that sense, no one is truly color-blind. Even people ...

In his compelling new treatise on race, The Virtue of Color-Blindness, Andre Archie laments that no one has made the “conservative case for the virtue of American color-blind principles in a manner ...

Dr. Mark Lindsay was 5 years old when he first learned that tree trunks were brown. "Up until that point, I believed leaves and trunks were all green. Just lighter and darker shades," Mark said. Mark ...

Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies.

Genetics plays a big role in color blindness. Find out why men are more at risk, and other factors that cause the condition. The human eye sees colors based on the wavelengths of the light radiating ...

A brouhaha broke out recently when it was revealed that TED treated a talk on color blindness by Coleman Hughes (who is black, if that matters), with surprising levels of hostility. Mr. Hughes and TED ...

You may know someone who can’t tell the difference between specific colors — and there is a scientific reason it could be happening. The condition is known as color blindness. To share a better ...

An estimated 300 million people worldwide are color-blind. This typically means they can't distinguish certain shades of color, they struggle to tell how bright colors are or, more rarely, they can't ...

Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, is more common in males. This is due to how parents pass down a chromosome associated with the male sex. Red-green color vision deficiency is the most ...