Illustrating the outsize and controversial role it now plays in disseminating news and regulating information across the world, social media giant Facebook is under fire this week after human rights activists and journalists accused it of censoring posts about the ongoing crisis, including charges of “ethnic cleansing,” now taking place in Myanmar. The company’s decision…
Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward promoted an endorsement from a fake news website, Politico reported. Ward at the end of October referenced an Arizona Monitor column on her campaign website and Facebook page that declared she was “your woman” and criticized her Republican competitors, according to the news outlet. “They all, despite how much some…
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Pennsylvania could see a dramatic change in its congressional delegation beginning Tuesday, with at least six of its 18 House districts changing hands. New congressional district lines combined with retirements and political turmoil in the Trump era have Democrats hoping to make sizable gains in a lopsided delegation that now includes five Democrats and 13…
Contrary to the popular demand that the conversation be put front and center, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed on Monday afternoon that the Trump administration simply does not want to talk about gun control in the immediate wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas in which at least 58 people…
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia both rushed to praise U.S. President Donald Trump for his widely denounced decision Friday to decertify the Iran nuclear accord, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ripped Trump’s move in a television appearance and accused him of spreading “insults” and “a pile of delusional allegations.” Rouhani also said…
In an analysis (pdf) published Thursday that throws into stark relief the “unjust and unsustainable” nature of what economists have termed the New Gilded Age, the Swiss financial firm UBS found that the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew by 17 percent in 2016, bringing their combined fortune to a record $6 trillion—more than double…
In a lengthy Washington Post interview with Anita Hill and five female Democratic lawmakers who supported her during the historic confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991, Hill criticized former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent apology regarding how he and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee handled her allegations that Thomas sexually harassed…
Following a massive wave of progressive victories in elections throughout the U.S. earlier this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) argued in a Politico op-ed on Friday that the Democratic Party must embrace “fundamental reforms” and “welcome into its ranks millions of working people and young people” if it is to build on this grassroots momentum…
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by Amazon Polly Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a long-awaited plan to overhaul EU asylum procedures Wednesday, aiming to unify European capitals behind a common migration policy after years of deadlock and acrimony over the issue. Despite entrenched positions among national capitals, the Commission president hopes that…