How America’s Election Machines are Vulnerable to Foreign Manipulation
Credit Image: © Renee Jones Schneider/TNS via ZUMA Wire Election security has garnered a lot of attention in the wake of Russian’s 2016 influence operation. In particular, concerns over the reliability and integrity of voting machines—long a subject of considerable attention in hacker and tech circles—has made its way into the mainstream, prompting many states…
Warren Wants to Make It a Crime for Corporations to Lie to Regulators
Protesters, many of them children, took to the streets in Washington, DC, to demand action on climate change on September 20.Jeff Malet/Zuma In light of recent revelations that ExxonMobil determined as far back as 1982 that humankind had contributed to climate change and then withheld that knowledge from the public for almost four decades, Elizabeth Warren…
Just How Bad Is LAX?
Wheels up at LAX for a red-eye flight.Kevin Drum From the Wall Street Journal: LAX, like some other airports, is a collection of terminals built around one double-deck roadway, with one level for departures and another for arrivals. Both are so clogged it can take an hour just to drop someone off after you enter…
The Democrats’ Impeachment Strategy Is Simple—and Risky
Susan Walsh/AP Less is more. That’s the mantra for the House Democrats, as they take their impeachment inquiry into a new phase: public hearings. For weeks, the House committees leading this effort—the intelligence, foreign affairs, and oversight committees—have narrowly focused on one matter: the Trump-Ukraine scandal and the tale of Donald Trump apparently abusing the…
The 2020 Election, Not the Supreme Court, Could Decide Dreamers’ Fate
Demonstrators arrive in front of the Supreme Court on Sunday after marching from New York City in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and temporary protected status.Jose Luis Magana/Getty The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in the case that will decide whether the Trump administration violated the law when it stripped undocumented…
Is There Still Room for an Anti-Abortion Hardliner in the Democratic Party?
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his wife, Donna, during his primary election watch party in Baton Rouge on October 12.Brett Duke In the past four years, the governor of Louisiana has signed both a statewide expansion of Medicaid and one of the country’s most restrictive abortion bans. He’s a Democrat in one of the…