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Editors and writers with The Onion work on elections copy in October 2008 during a drafts meeting at the website’s offices, then in New York. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption toggle caption Seth Wenig/AP Editors and writers with The Onion work on elections copy in October 2008 during a drafts meeting at the website’s…
Hillary Clinton’s sudden attack on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is a dramatic break with Democratic Party doctrine that the problem with single-payer is that it is politically implausible — not that it is a bad idea. Single-payer, the Canadian-style system in which the government pays for universal health care, takes the health insurance…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders this week assailed rival Hillary Clinton for taking large speaking fees from the financial industry since leaving the State Department. According to public disclosures, by giving just 12 speeches to Wall Street banks, private equity firms, and other financial corporations, Clinton made $2,935,000 from 2013 to 2015: Clinton’s most lucrative…
The story of Flint, Michigan’s children being poisoned by lead-contaminated drinking water has, rightly, shocked and scandalized the nation. But while the situation in Flint is certainly an extreme case, the problem is much more widespread than many realize: Children in essentially every city in America are being exposed to hazardous levels of toxic lead, and…
Reddit Releases First Original Series, Moves Toward Video Content Creation Entertainment, social networking and user-provided news website Reddit released its first original video series called “Cyborg Nation” on Wednesday. By Tyler MacDonald | Nov 05, 2015 05:00 AM EST article start img_article start Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian used ideas taken from Reddit users to help…
Jan. 19, 2016 7:00 a.m. ET Despite numerous warnings that the online advertising business is rife with fraud, marketers continue to waste billions–an estimated $7 billion, at least, this year–on buying online ads that people do not see, according to the Association of National Advertisers. The trade group and ad fraud detection firm White Ops…
Facebook and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI, are engaged in a snippy epistolary argument as the agency prepares to write new policy that would affect Free Basics, Facebook’s discounted internet offering. Now, in the manner of a passive-aggressive spat between roommates, Facebook has accused the agency—or at least, someone within the…
In New York magazine this week, Jonathan Chait attempts to make “The Case Against Bernie Sanders.” Allow us to un-make it. Let’s take Chait’s main points one by one: Sanders doesn’t give the Affordable Care Act enough credit. Bernie Sanders advocates universal, single-payer government health care. To be clear, everyone who believes in health care…
What makes this year more special than any other? This is the year that the very worst class war rhetoric becomes the reality. Oxfam has gotten into the admirable habit of releasing a report about global inequality each year right when the Davos summit is happening, so that the people at Davos have something to…
The Discovery Problem Is Solved I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old and music helps keep breakfast from turning into a food fight. So not long ago I fired up Spotify and did a quick search for “you are my sunshine.” Spotify did its thing, I picked one to play from the hundreds available and…