A Few Thoughts on Fighting Disinformation
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What’s the best way to fight disinformation? I feel like musing on this, but first a disclaimer: I’m not involved in the MoJo disinformation project and I don’t know what the plan for this is. What follows are just some miscellaneous thoughts on the subject,…
Outrageous! US Taxes European Trucks at 25% Rate
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 1964 the Ford Motor Company was worried about this: That’s the lovable old VW bus in its pickup truck variation. Ford was worried that it would eat into their domestic pickup truck sales, and if Ford was worried then so was the United…
She Spoke out About Climate Change—and They Tried to Make Her Pay for It
Grist / Sarah Myhre Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2015, a University of California, Davis researcher named Sarah Moffit appeared in a four-and-a-half-minute video detailing her work studying ancient ocean ecosystems. Looking young and serious, with a long…
This Famous Author Commands You to Step Away From the Pork Chop
Searsie/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jonathan Safran Foer is probably best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, which is set in New York shortly after 9/11. But in the late 2000s, he took a break from fiction. As he prepared to become…
The Secret Stash of Soviet Street Photographer Masha Ivashintsova
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The “photograph of the missing being…will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.” —Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Last year, Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan and her husband were renovating their house near St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly, Leningrad), when they stumbled in the…
This Heart-Rending Reunification of Mother and Child Says All You Need to Know About Trump’s Border Policy
Patrick Semansky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, a Guatemalan mother was tearfully reunited with her 7-year-old at the Baltimore airport after being separated at the border a month earlier. The heart-rending scene was captured by ABC News, among other outlets. The mother and child, Beata Mariana de Jesus…