The Government’s Failure to Block the Time Warner-AT&T Merger Could Lead to Even Bigger Monopolies
Igor Golovniov/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Justice lost its appeal of the politically charged AT&T-Time Warner merger last week, potentially putting some brakes on a burgeoning anti-monopoly movement and putting pressure on Congress to act instead. The case marked the first time in more than…
Right-Wing Troll Jacob Wohl Banned From Twitter
John Middlebrook/CSM/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Right-wing Twitter provocateur Jacob Wohl was suspended from the social-media platform on Tuesday after he boasted about plans to manipulate online political discussion in a high-profile newspaper interview. Twitter said he had violated several of the company’s rules, including creating and operating…
The New Chief Campaign Finance Regulator Has a Plan to Make Her Agency Matter for the First Time in Years
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ellen Weintraub, the sole Democratic commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, just became chairwoman of the agency in January and she’s already trying to shake things up at her “dysfunctional” agency. The FEC chairmanship, which rotates among the commissioners each year, is mostly a ceremonial…
Measles Outbreaks Are Increasing. Experts Think It’s Because of Anti-Vaxxers on Facebook.
David Cheskin/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Medical experts warn that the internet could be making more of us sick, pointing to research highlighting how online platforms’ role in boosting vaccination opponents and their baseless theories is fueling infectious disease outbreaks across the world. “Incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases can be…
Elections Commission Chief Uses the “Nuclear Option” to Rescue the Agency From Gridlock
Joe Raedle/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fed up with the Federal Election Commission’s gridlock that has given violators of election law a free pass, the agency’s new chair says she won’t allow FEC lawyers to defend the government when the FEC has been sued for not enforcing the law. This drastic…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Who is Not In a Coma, Returns to Supreme Court
Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her return to the Supreme Court for oral arguments on Monday for the first time since announcing she underwent surgery in December for cancer. Her public appearance comes after false conspiracy theories about her health…