Mark Zuckerberg Does Not Like Personal Privacy
Stephen Lam/Reuters via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Mark Zuckerberg wriggles his way past a Senate committee that’s pretty clearly overmatched in the IQ department, it’s important to remember why Facebook has such big privacy problems. It’s because Mark Zuckerberg wants it that way. Here he is in…
Zuckerberg Confirms Facebook Is Cooperating With Mueller
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday confirmed officials from his company had been contacted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Zuckerberg, who was testifying before two Senate committees about Facebook’s…
A New Bill Would Give DC High Schoolers the Right to Vote
Thousands of protesters, many of them students, gather near the Capitol for the DC March For Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018.Erin Scott/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For two months now, teenage activists have been leading a movement to vote out of office politicians who stand in the…
How Has Your State Done on Reducing the Probability of Death?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Following up on my post this morning about the change in probability of death between 1990 and 2016, here’s a simplified version of the death chart ranked by state: In West Virginia, the probability of dying in middle age has increased from about 9 percent…
American Intervention in the Middle East Has Been a 4-Decade Disaster
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Following up on last night’s post about Syria, let’s do an assessment. How has America done in its various military interventions in the Greater Middle East (spanning North Africa through Central Asia)? This has to be judged against (a) the goals of each intervention and…
Internal Sinclair Email: CEO Blames “Extremists” for Anchor Controversy
TRIPPLAAR KRISTOFFER/Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Chris Ripley, the president and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, told employees of the local-TV juggernaut that “extremists” who “do not like what they hear or see” were trying to “bully” the company and deserved the blame for the blowback…