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As women are being increasingly targeted by the spread of deepfake pornographic images online, international and domestic lawmakers struggle to create legislation that effectively protects victims from these attacks.
For now, Democrats wanting Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race are being polite about it. Don’t expect that to last.
Eleven suggestions for the next 117 days.
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In many ways, the past few weeks have seen the Supreme Court issuing a Declaration of Dependence on themselves, on corporations, and on Donald Trump.
If there is a right-wing piece of misinformation out there, Elon Musk is happy to amplify it.
Donald Trump is crowing about his lead over Joe Biden. But what if he ends up facing another candidate and has to scramble to find new lines of attack (and another childish nickname for his new opponent)?
Hunter Biden is advising his father on whether to stay in the presidential race. Let’s hope making bad decisions doesn’t run in the family.
The emerging strategy is not convincing undecided voters but persuading infrequent voters who already like him.
Every reasonable person seems to think that giving someone like Donald Trump total immunity is crazy. But maybe this license would cause him to focus more on defrauding taxpayers to enrich himself than causing more serious damage elsewhere.
It still seems to be an election hinging on which candidate voters worry the most about.
On Thursday, if you bet $50 that “another Democrat” would win the 2024 election, you’d get $6,500 back. On Friday, after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, that number has changed drastically.