The NCAA Says Student-Athletes Shouldn’t Be Paid Because The 13th Amendment...
College sports is a business – a very lucrative business. That very obvious dynamic undergirds a lawsuit filed by former NCAA athlete Lawrence “Poppy” Livers asserting that scholarship students who...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos Is Helping Puerto Rico Re-Imagine Its Public School System. That...
Many in Puerto Rico worry that the government is treating this more as an opportunity to disrupt education, rather than stabilize it.
View ArticleHow Lenders Are Turning Low-Level Courts Into Dickensian 'Debt Collection Mills'
A new ACLU report on modern-day debt imprisonment finds that courts issue tens of thousands of arrest warrants yearly for debtors owing as little as $30.
View ArticleThe Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed
Documents shine light on a secretive coalition that eavesdrops on communications in countries across the world.
View ArticleThe Left Is Erasing Black And Brown People From The Opioid Epidemic
Many dealers are themselves addicted to opioids and in need of treatment. Cracking down can have the effect of driving drugs deeper and deeper underground.
View ArticleEscape From America
Safaa Al Shakarchi was tormented by the idea that he would never see his children again, all because his family came to the US seeking asylum.
View ArticleSaudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner Was 'In His Pocket'
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told confidants that Kushner discussed the names of royal family members opposed to his power grab.
View ArticleThe Radical Imagination Of Eve Ewing
The "Electric Arches" author talks about being a public school science teacher, the white CIA operative in Black Panther, guns, Chicago and much more.
View ArticleA Guaranteed Jobs-For-All Program Is Gaining Traction Among 2020 Democratic...
A job guarantee — the idea that everyone should have a job if they want or need one, and it’s the government’s job to make that possible — is back.
View ArticleTarget: Journalist
How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.
View ArticleFacebook Uses Artificial Intelligence To Predict Your Future Actions For...
Facebook can identify people people "at risk" of jumping ship from one brand to a competitor. The technology raises ethical alarms among experts.
View ArticleIt's Impossible To Prove Your Laptop Hasn't Been Hacked
I spent two years trying to get someone to tamper with my laptop, so I could then detect it. Somewhere along the way, I realized this might never happen.
View ArticleHomeless Sex Offenders Are Getting Kicked Out Of Their South Florida...
Florida's Miami-Dade County has among the strictest sex offender residency restrictions in the country.
View ArticleYou Can't Handle The Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows
Facebook still tells its 2 billion users very little about how it targets them for ads that represent essentially the whole of the company’s business. New research illuminates the likely reason why:...
View ArticleAided By Palantir, The LAPD Uses Predictive Policing To Monitor Specific...
A new report details the Los Angeles Police Department's use of algorithms to identify "hot spots" and "chronic offenders" and target them for surveillance.
View ArticleExperts Say Keep Amazon's Alexa Away From Your Kids
Citing professors, pediatricians and others, the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood says the listening device could stunt development and normalize surveillance.
View ArticleInside The Barbaric US Industry Of Dog Experimentation
There is a largely hidden, poorly regulated, and highly profitable industry that breeds dogs for the sole purpose of often-torturous experimentation, after which the dogs are killed because they are no...
View ArticleHow A Stunning Upset At A Congressional Convention Led To Calls For A...
Jahana Hayes stunned Connecticut's political establishment at this month's congressional convention. But the fight is far from over.
View ArticleProtection Or Plunder?
The New York Times' Rukmini Callimachi took thousands of ISIS files out of Iraq, reigniting a bitter dispute over the theft of Iraqi history.
View ArticleThe Misogynistic Logic Of Jeff Sessions's Horrifying New Asylum Policy For...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions dismissed domestic violence as a "private" crime — compounding his anti-immigrant stance with misogyny.
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