President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney walk to the Oval Office, on Nov. 17, 2004, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Ron Edmonds/AP On Wednesday, as the eyes of the U.S. public were focused on Tuesday’s midterm election results, a U.S…. Read More ›
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New Justice Department Media Rules Won’t Help if Trump Wins Again
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 24, 2022. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean,” the pirates swear by a supposedly ironclad set of rules… Read More ›
An Uber Millionaire Wants You to Vote on the Internet — Despite the Inherent Vulnerabilities
In the fall of 2010, the District of Columbia was preparing to do something bold: allow overseas voters to cast their ballots online. A few weeks ahead of the November general election, it conducted a mock internet election and invited… Read More ›
Accident With 1918 Pandemic Virus Raises Questions About Pathogen Research
At the moment that the ferret bit him, the researcher was smack in the middle of Manhattan, in a lab one block from Central Park’s East Meadow. It was the Friday afternoon before Labor Day in 2011, and people were… Read More ›
Student Infected With Debilitating Virus in Undisclosed Biolab Accident
The graduate student was alone in the lab on a Saturday, handling a mouse infected with a debilitating virus, when the needle slipped. She wore two gowns, two pairs of shoe covers, a hair net, a face mask, and two… Read More ›
Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation
The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as… Read More ›
Bizarre Republican Ad Blames Biden for Anti-Asian Violence Incited by Trump
Citizens for Sanity, a shadowy nonprofit run by three former Trump administration officials, has purchased $33 million worth of air time this month to flood airwaves with violent, misleading ads that claim that Democrats are exclusively to blame for a… Read More ›
A People-Powered Insurgency Threatened to Reshape the Democratic Party. Then Came AIPAC and Its Allied Super PAC, Democratic Majority for Israel.
As Maram Al-Dada, a 34-year-old aviation engineer in Orlando, Florida, prepared to speak at a rally in May 2021, he couldn’t help but think of his family. One particular moment from his childhood in Gaza was seared into his memory…. Read More ›
NIH Awards New Grant to U.S. Organization at Center of Covid-19 Lab Leak Controversy
The main U.S.-based scientific organization at the center of the controversy over the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic has won a new grant from the National Institutes of Health for risky bat coronavirus surveillance research, despite losing a previous award… Read More ›
How Amazon, Google, and Facebook Helped Fund the Campaign to Overturn Roe
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the country’s top internet companies quickly responded with commitments to help employees in states that moved to ban abortion. In an implicit signal of support for abortion rights, the companies said they… Read More ›