An eager reader gets me thinking about a connection between Russian efforts to hack American democracy and the Internet-Age-old topic of anonymity and identity in…
Category: national
Equifax put a music major in charge of information security, and now 143 million Americans can no longer securely identify themselves with their birthdates, addresses, Social…
Warning—I’m about to use the n-word. Actually, Ta-Nehisi Coates uses it to put in the starkest terms his argument that white supremacy is the core…
While Donald Trump uses the cost of health care for transgender soldiers (less than a hundredth of the cost of kicking them out, and less…
In response to reports of crop damage around the U.S., the Trump Environmental Protection Agency is considering further limits on Monsanto’s and BASF’s new dicamba…
I’ve wondered if Donald Trump’s election win last year meant that we are doomed now to a cycle of emotional, demagogic, logic- and evidence-free campaigns…
In a new Atlantic article on the maladaptation of the smartphone generation, psychology professor Jean M. Twenge says a decline in independent behaviors (which she…
Jennifer Rubin offers this poignant assessment of our pretend President: Trump has been weirdly animated about the hurricane, exclaiming on Twitter about the unprecedented nature…
Donald Trump thinks his threat to shut down the federal government if Congress won’t fund the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for to keep…
In this week’s corporate fascism file, Energy Transfer Partners is suing Greenpeace and other environmental groups who protested ETP’s Dakota Access pipeline. ETP portrays the…