Microsoft Says Iranian Hackers Are Targeting a 2020 Presidential Campaign
Avishek Das/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Microsoft announced Friday that it had uncovered a hacking group associated with the Iranian government that had targeted journalists, current and former government officials, and at least one US presidential campaign. The company released a statement saying that four consumer Microsoft email accounts had been compromised by a group…
Death or the End of a Relationship? To Nakaya They’re One and the Same
Enmi Yang Nakaya insists she isn’t a sad person. “I have my dark days,” says the LA-born and Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, “but I’m a very social, outgoing person.” Her music is another matter. Sadness suffuses her songs. Like anything from Sufjan Stevens, Mitski, or Phoebe Bridgers (to name a few), Nakaya’s songs engulf you in a…
We Had the Quid, Now We Have the Quo
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Ryaboshapka.Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via ZUMA Ukraine has gotten its $400 million in military assistance and its visit to the White House, where President Zelensky dutifully reported that he had felt no pressure from the Trump administration to open an investigation into the Biden family. So this, I suppose, is just an…
Dem Focus Should Be on Military Aid, Quid Pro Quo
Regular reader AM writes today about something I’ve been meaning to mention for a while. I’ll let him go first since he has family and friends in middle America: My concern is that Dem messengers of all stripes; chyrons on MSNBC and CNN; and print media sources are now all but uniformally stating things like…
Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in September
The American economy gained 136,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at a sluggish but decent 46,000 jobs. The headline unemployment rate dropped to 3.5 percent, the lowest rate in half a century. The numbers below the surface…
SCOTUS Just took a Case that Could Challenge Abortion Rights—in the Midst of the 2020 Election
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for a formal group portrait to include the new Associate Justice, top row, far right, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo The Supreme Court decided Friday to hear June Medical Services v. Gee, a Louisiana case that could…