There’s a New Problem With Trump’s Attacks on Amazon
Kyle Mazza/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has recently ramped up his attacks against Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos for not paying enough in local and state taxes. While there are plenty of problems with the president’s criticism, it looks as if hypocrisy might be a new one. Amazon…
The Long, Twisted, and Bizarre History of the Trump-Russia Scandal
Carlo Allegri; Klimentyev Mikhail; Carlos Barria; Kevin Lamarque; Monterey Herald; Sergei Karpukhin; Jim Loscalzo (via ZUMA) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump-Russia scandal—with all its bizarre and troubling twists and turns—has become a controversy that is defining the Trump presidency. The FBI recently disclosed that since July it has…
We Obtained Cambridge Analytica’s Post-Election Pitch to Potential Corporate Clients
Alex Milan Tracy/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the wake of Donald Trump’s shock victory in 2016, Cambridge Analytica, the secretive data analytics firm that worked for the Trump campaign and is now ensnared in an international controversy, set out to capitalize on its connection to the new…
Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the late summer of 2015, Chris Wilson, the director of research, analytics, and digital strategy for Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, had a conversation with a contractor that left him furious. A widely respected pollster who had taken leave from his firm to work…
Inside IBM’s Purge of Thousands of Workers Who Have One Thing in Common
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was published in partnership with ProPublica. For nearly a half century, IBM came as close as any company to bearing the torch for the American Dream. As the world’s dominant technology firm, payrolls at International Business Machines Corp. swelled to nearly a quarter-million…
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The story of Wawarsing, New York, sounds a lot like the stories of small towns across the United States. Once a proud manufacturing hub known for producing high-quality knives in the Hudson Valley, its 150-year-old industry withered as companies were bought and sold, then squeezed for maximum profit until they packed up and moved…