Politics

Big Tech has a battle ahead over antitrust regulation — and it’s going to get messy

Lina Khan, who has been a strong advocate for breaking up Big Tech companies, was recently appointed as chair of…

3 years ago

Salamanders have a secret to surviving climate change

The red-spotted newt, a kind of salamander, typically lives in water as an adult. If its habitat dries up, however,…

3 years ago

An epic Supreme Court showdown over religion and LGBTQ rights ends in a whimper

Justice Neil Gorsuch (L) talks with Chief Justice John Roberts on the steps of the Supreme Court following his official…

3 years ago

Ibram X. Kendi on anti-racism, Juneteenth, and the reckoning that wasn’t

Ibram X. Kendi stands for a portrait in 2019 following a panel discussion in Washington, DC, on his book How…

3 years ago

What Obamacare achieved — and didn’t

A demonstrator holds a sign in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on November 10, 2020, as…

3 years ago

The Supreme Court shut down an attack on Obamacare in the most dismissive way possible

Justice Stephen Breyer speaks at a Harvard forum in 2015. | Paul Marotta/Getty ImagesBuh-bye. For the third time since the…

3 years ago

Joe Manchin’s sweeping new voting rights proposal, explained

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) recently came out against the For the People Act, a comprehensive voting rights bill backed by…

3 years ago

How Northern Ireland is complicating Biden’s European agenda

President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the first day of the Group of Seven leaders summit…

3 years ago

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants to create a new agency to deal with data privacy

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is giving her privacy agency bill another try. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe FTC currently enforces federal…

3 years ago

The problem with Facebook’s attempt to be more like Nextdoor

Facebook is expanding its reliance on community moderators. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNextdoor’s approach to content moderation doesn’t…

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