It Looks Like Trump Is Actually Sending Troops to the Border
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration is making good on the president’s pledge to send troops to the Mexican border. On Wednesday afternoon, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the administration will work with governors to deploy National Guardsmen to the border. The announcement is the culmination of…
Facebook Admits Millions More People Were Affected by Cambridge Analytica Breach Than Previously Known
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook said Wednesday that personal data for up to 87 million people—tens of millions more than originally thought—may have been “improperly shared” with Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Most of those affected were in…
Trump vs. Amazon In Exactly 100 Words
Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I think I’ve now read upwards of a dozen articles about whether Amazon pays a fair rate for shipping its packages via the post office. It’s insane. The journalists of America are apparently required to write detailed explainers about every single…
Where Did All the Riots Go?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fifty years after the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Matthew Desmond wants to know why our cities are so calm these days: Fifty years later, our cities, in both the North and the South, remain sharp-line segregated. Not only that,…
Is Anyone Building “Foursquare But For Racism”?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m reading Nick Harkaway’s Gnomon right now, and one of the characters has just decided to create a new app that lets people tag their experiences on the street: “So, like Foursquare,” my interviewer said, with the doubt of a young person looking at an…
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Links YouTube Shooting to “Criminal Illegal Aliens”
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) was about to discuss sanctuary cities on the Fox Business Network on Tuesday afternoon when news broke about a shooter at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. “You were going to talk to me about sanctuary cities…