Everything was going so well. North and South Korea participated in the Winter Olympics under a single flag. North Korea destroyed its last known nuclear test site. Kim Jong Un met with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in, and they each stepped on the other's territory. The North even scheduled talks »
Mark Zuckerberg testified today in a Senate hearing about the exposure of upwards of 87 million accounts' sensitive data to Cambridge Analytica and about Russia's potential hijacking of the platform in the 2016 election. Here are my main takeaways from reading and watching portions of the hearing: Zuckerberg is a »
Over the course of the 2016 election, Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) published controversial content on both platforms to spread misinformation and spark division in the United States. But there is little evidence of the IRA's efforts left on Twitter and Facebook today. »
The mass shooting crisis may be a mental health problem, but improving mental health isn't a practical solution. Instead, let's decrease the availability of guns—and avoid a saturated mental health system and a national thought police. »
There is an incredible coverage gap between Trump and every other issue in today's news media. An unscientific poll of the front pages of major news publications indicates that around half of major stories are, in some way, about Donald Trump. Consider the front page of NBC News, where mentions »
Better cryptocurrencies exist—cryptocurrencies that were able to learn from Bitcoin's successes and mistakes—and we should use those, instead. Here's why. »
Net Neutrality is necessary for a free, open, and uncensored Internet. Still, Net Neutrality finds itself under attack. Below is a series of arguments against Net Neutrality created by Reddit user /u/renegade_division paired with rebuttals. /u/renegade_division's argument has been edited for concision and clarity. "Two »
Like most political movements in the twenty-first century, the fight for Net Neutrality is taking place on Twitter. Before embarking on an online crusade of Tweets to save Net Neutrality, though, one needs to arm oneself with the facts, statistics, and rebuttals necessary to be an effective proponent of the »
Today, the Supreme Court holds the ability to declare any law—state or federal—unconstitutional through its power of judicial review. The framers of the Constitution had other ideas, however: James Madison famously proposed the federal negative, which would allow Congress to nullify state laws. Perhaps Madison was on to »
Those who are skeptical towards the Russia scandal often argue that election meddling is nothing new, and they would be right. But Donald Trump's case is fundamentally different; normally, the candidate isn't in on it himself. »
It's Simple, Mr. President: Don't Pardon Racists. (SHORT) — Just a few hours ago, Donald Trump issued the first pardon of his presidency: Joe Arpaio, an 85 year old former Arizona sheriff charged with criminal contempt after violating an order to stop racially profiling Latinos for immigration status checks. Like most »
