When the FTC filed its amended antitrust complaint against Facebook in mid-August, we read it with interest. FTC Chair Lina Khan rose to fame with a seminal analysis of the monopolistic tactics of Amazon, another Big Tech giant, when she was just a law student, and we anticipated that the amended...
The panel is also requesting information on how social media companies policed their platforms.
Because the U.S. has its own public anti-semitism problem which pretty much everybody living in it loves to conveniently attribute to the other team while completely absolving their side from any of it.
For years, the Trump administration touted its discussions with the Taliban. Now, those same officials are criticizing President Biden’s Taliban discussions.
A judge blocked an executive order by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that aimed to ban the state's largest school districts from enforcing a mask mandate, a measure that the judge ruled violated the state's Parents' Bill of Rights and cut against the "overwhelming" medial consensus on COVID-19.
We need a real accounting over Afghanistan. Republicans will never provide it.
Law-enforcement officers’ unions are rebelling against the possibility of required vaccinations in a way that reflects their own distorted view of their power in society.
Having been shamed about my sexuality when I was young, I was determined, as a mother, to celebrate my child’s romantic wishes.
Making sense of tragedy and disaster.
“The Bible says we’re made in the image of God and Satan tries to cover that up. A mask is a sign of oppression,” Nelson said Thursday. “If it was Muslim, Jewish or something of a more high-profile minority religion in this country, yes, they would have accommodated ... just to say they weren’t discriminating based on that religion. But they feel safe because it’s Christianity.”
You can tell this guy’s spent his entire life living as a member of a majority religion and enjoying the priveleges of same because he knows nothing about either the sincerity test or the undue burden test. These are things that anyone of any minority religion in this country, including the ones he complains about, finds out about when, say, trying to get time off from your call center job for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, or other festival days.
Sick of spoiled entitled people like this guy.
Why it’s receiving so much criticism from the right and the left now.
The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis
Hello, my name is Emily. I’m 20 years old and I’m autistic. So far, the news coverage on Spectrum 10k has been dominated by non-autistic parents of autistic children and professionals, with little voice being given to autistic people themselves. Here is my round-up of what I think we know so far...
SPRINGVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — She was folding a red sweater when she heard a car door slam, went to the window and realized that a moment she always imagined would kill her was about to be made real: three Marines and a Navy chaplain were walking toward her door, and that could only mean one thing.
Police who defended the Capitol on January 6 are now left to fend for themselves.
“Back the Blue!” from Republicans has always been and continues to be pure bullshit. This just drives that point home.
It did not have to be this way.
As an American retreat becomes a tragedy, a few points to ponder.