How Big Oil Is Gaslighting Us
The fossil fuel industry is rigging the system to keep winning for decades to come.
The fossil fuel industry is rigging the system to keep winning for decades to come.
Bill Binney was an NSA analyst whose work was so effective it was shut down. It threatened to derail the gravy train fueled by the kinds of problems he might have solved — including preventing potential terrorist attacks. The contractors and executives riding that train had a motto: “keep the problem going, so the money keeps flowing.”
In a time when everything is digital and online, do we have to return to hand-counted paper ballots to assure trust in our election results?
What’s not cool? Privacy.
How pivotal events in Israel resonate within American Jewish communities, shaping identity and geopolitics.
A chemical company facing lawsuits sought to block an investigation of its internal documents. What were they hiding?
President Donald Trump has gone after Chinese electronics giant Huawei in recent months. But his attacks may have backfired: The company now has a heroic reputation back home and sales are soaring. At the same time, companies like Apple are suffering.
Shelby County claims it was too overwhelmed by thousands of last-minute voter registrations to give citizens rejected by the system a chance to correct errors or omissions on their forms on election day. Now it’s up to the court to decide what will happen to voters.
Millions of Facebook users likely had their privacy violated when the company’s lax controls allowed user data to be sold to Cambridge Analytica, which allegedly used the information to manipulate voters. As Facebook faces declining consumer trust and an eroding stock price, its executives promise changes. Will they be enough to keep our information safe?
The Trump White House should not take advantage of a pandemic to ram regulations through without public input.
This Labor Day marks a fundamental shift in the nature of work. What’s the future for employers and employees?
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