Dear Media: Stop Turning Every Twitter Flame War Into National News
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days ago a girl in Utah posted some pictures of her prom night on Twitter. She was wearing a red cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress, that she had found at a vintage store in downtown Salt Lake City. Naturally, someone on Twitter had…
Another Look at the Gig Economy
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days ago I took a look at whether the gig economy was really “exploding,” as an LA Times columnist had suggested. Neither the BLS nor anyone else directly tracks this, so I took a look at the number of part-time workers as a…
Stephen Colbert Revives “Stephen Colbert” to Defend Michelle Wolf
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you haven’t seen Stephen Colbert’s legendary 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner appearance where, playing his right-wing blowhard character “Stephen Colbert,” he roasts President George W. Bush to his face, then stop reading and immediately go to the bottom of this post and watch…
Trump Says Mueller’s Leaked Questions Don’t Involve Collusion. (Actually, They Do.)
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump seized on a collection of leaked questions special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly hopes to ask the president, claiming Tuesday morning that the list contains no queries about collusion between his campaign and Russia. The list, which was obtained by the…
Cambridge Analytica Has a New Defense: We Didn’t Do All Those Things We Said We Did
Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix leaves his office in central London on March 20, 2018.Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Moldovan-born American academic named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan made a defiant appearance before the UK Parliament last week to accuse Facebook of using him as a scapegoat in the…
“We Wouldn’t Need the Suicide Hotline If Dairy Farmers Were Getting Paid What They Deserve”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brenda Cochran was a self-described “city girl” before she married her husband in 1973. He was a dairy farmer, so she joined him on a small farm in Pennsylvania. They’ve been working together since 1975. Cochran says that if she’d known how difficult dairy farming…