Politics & Current Affairs

In the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, another data firm was discovered to have amassed similar user profiles of millions of people.

After the wrongful arrest of two black men, the coffee shop chain will be closing down for an afternoon in order to educate up to 175,000 employees on racial bias in the workplace.

Rapper Meek Mill is stuck in jail, caught in the U.S. justice system’s perpetual probation trap that keeps a disproportionate number of black people in America incarcerated.

The programs are long and intense, the creativity and relationships aspect of the vocation has been eroded, there is pervasive negativity in the media, and comparatively poor salary and working conditions.

Kakistocracy is rule by the worst, but who are the worst? A better question, how do we know?

April 20, 4:20 in stoner folklore, is a day of celebration—as well as a 12 percent increase in fatal car crashes.

Hey. Remember former Speaker of the House John Boehner? The guy who famously said that he was “unalterably opposed” to legalizing marijuana? Well, now he’s a huge pothead.

The survey asked whether people had deleted Facebook, whether they’d pay for service, and whether they’d been using it less since the scandal broke.rn

Facebook’s actions – or inactions – facilitated breaches of privacy and human rights associated with democratic governance. rnrn

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is one of the latest public figures to join the #DeleteFacebook movement over concerns on how the social media platform handles user data.

Facebook announced Tuesday that it had removed more than 200 pages and accounts tied to the Russia-based Internet Research Agency, which has been accused of meddling in the U.S. presidential election.

In recent months, Russian ships have been spotted near the underwater cables that enable telecommunications service between North America and overseas nations.

We often bicker and argue over what our national heroes believed in. Why did Dr. King believe in moving towards socialism?

50 years after his assassination, a look back at five ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. changed the U.S.

When you look at the history of it, a strange pattern emerges.

The history of April Fools’ Day is long and glorious. We’ve got seven of the best pranks of all time for you here.

A new article published in Mother Jones shows how Cambridge Analytica positioned itself to potential clients after the election of Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump attacked Amazon on Twitter Thursday morning, arguing that the online retailer doesn’t pay enough taxes and the USPS is its “delivery boy.”

Former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie made a series of surprising assertions about the data mining company to British lawmakers on March 27.

Why you should use Facebook with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Turns out that laws (already in action in 22 states) that don’t allow violent people to own firearms actually lower homicides.

After concerns over data security, Elon Musk has elected to remove his companies from Facebook entirely.

Free-market fans often fail to see how self-interest can create diseased-market games. Robert Frank helps diagnose American healthcare’s deadly trillion-dollar disease.

The report, released by “advisors to the wealthy,” shows what the rich spend their investment money on. Hint: It’s not factories.

In his first media appearances since the Cambridge Analytica story broke, Mark Zuckerberg spoke to several publications about how Facebook plans to protect user data going forward.

Good news for space exploration?

Over the past week, former employees at Facebook and other companies have revealed how tens of millions of users’ data has been harvested and passed along to outside parties.

The 2018 World Happiness Index reveals some surprises and explains why the world’s richest country is not one of its happiest.

Last month, the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons released more than 6,000 prisoners early. The Sentencing Commission reduced their sentences retroactively. And the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill […]

If you check your phone in the middle of the night, it says something about you.