In October 2018, Clare Lopez, a far-right activist and longtime top figure at the anti-Muslim group Center for Security Policy, wrote to a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security expecting a receptive audience. After all, the recipient of the email was… Read More ›
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Georgia Democrat Drops Out, Paving the Way for QAnon Candidate to Enter Congress
A sign showing support for Marjorie Taylor Greene is seen on a vehicle outside an election watch event, late Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Rome, Ga. Photo: AP/Mike Stewart. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican nominee for Congress in northern Georgia… Read More ›
BlueLeaks Documents Bolster Whistleblower Account of Intelligence Tampering at Homeland Security
If Chad Wolf, the man currently running the largest law enforcement agency in the country, had any idea of what was coming, he didn’t show it. On Wednesday, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security stood before his… Read More ›
3,000 Dead on 9/11 Meant Everything. 200,000 Dead of Covid-19 Means Nothing. Here's Why.
A supporter of President Donald Trump wears a Trump mask in Miami, on May 10, 2020. Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images Lots of people have ridiculed President Donald Trump for telling journalist Bob Woodward that he “wanted to always play [Covid-19]… Read More ›
Journalism's New Propaganda Tool: Using "Confirmed" to Mean its Opposite
One of the most humiliating journalism debacles of the Trump era played out on December 8, 2017, first on CNN and then on MSNBC. The spectacle kicked off on that Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. when CNN, deploying its most melodramatic music and graphics designed… Read More ›
Rebuilding the Economy Will Require Joe Biden to Think Very Differently Than 2009
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks on the third plank of his “Build Back Better” economic recovery plan for working families, on July 21, 2020, in New Castle, Del. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Joe Biden’s invocation of Franklin Roosevelt’s New… Read More ›
Online lenders are preying on desperate borrowers and could trigger a new consumer financial crisis
The economic cataclysm brought on by the coronavirus caught American consumers in an extremely precarious position — one that was evident well before more than 50 million people filed for unemployment. By the end of last year, Americans had racked… Read More ›
Drug Companies Continue to Shed Liability for Rushed Coronavirus Treatments
Despite experts’ repeated warnings that rushing a vaccine for Covid-19 could endanger hundreds of millions of people, President Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants to fast track a vaccine. His plan, reportedly, is to bypass regulatory standards… Read More ›
Some Teachers Are Being Required to Come to School — to Teach Virtually
Kathy Rokakis, a 62-year-old high school French teacher in Michigan, is dreading her return to school next week. Students in her Wayne County school district — Plymouth-Canton Community Schools — were originally going to be given the option to return… Read More ›
Senior U.S. Intelligence Official Died by Suicide in June
One of the nation’s highest-ranking intelligence officials died by suicide at his home in the Washington, D.C., area in June, but the U.S. intelligence community has remained publicly silent about the incident even as the Central Intelligence Agency has conducted a… Read More ›