Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
During his tenure as the director of national intelligence, James Clapper has maintained a classified blog. It’s called “Intercept,” and is only accessible to people within the intelligence community with clearance to access the government intelink site. It even offers a secret RSS feed so analysts will never miss a post. Clapper’s Intercept blog has no relationship to…
Is Collateral Beauty the worst movie of the year? Those were the whispers I heard before I headed into a screening this week, on the Christmasy Upper West Side of Manhattan. (Though, being just a few blocks north of the Trump International Hotel & Tower makes it hard to feel Christmasy, or really anything but…
For OPEC, there are few enemies more fearsome than the tiny Oklahoma town of Cushing. With oil inventories at Cushing creeping near an all-time high, U.S. benchmark futures prices are struggling to advance despite the promised production cuts agreed to by OPEC, Russia and other producers. And the storage tanks are likely to stay full…
The new issue of Jacobin is out now. To mark its release, we’re offering discounted introductory subscriptions. The shooting at the Comet Pizzeria in Washington, DC last weekend brought the subject of fake news to national attention. The gunman was “self-investigating” the preposterous claim that Hillary Clinton and John Podesta operated a child sex ring out…
Left, Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, New York City; Right, a view of Trump Grill and its patrons. Both images from Alamy. Halfway through a recent late lunch at the Trump Grill—the clubby steakhouse in the lobby of Trump Tower that has recently become famous through the incessant media coverage of its namesake landlord, and…
Russian hackers struck at the heart of the U.S. military in August 2015 by seizing the e-mail system used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CBS News has learned. Then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey was alerted to the attack by an early-morning phone call from the Director of the National Security Agency, Admiral…
Only two more weeks to endure guys Ah, what a year it’s been. What a year it’s been for women! We got more medals than ever before at the Olympics, we ended up with a surprise woman Prime Minister and, equally surprisingly, no female POTUS. We made huge medical advances towards addressing the gender imbalance…
This article has been updated to include a link to a Firefox version of the extension. On Friday morning, President-elect Donald Trump took a new tack in his war on the Russia hacking issue. Are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed that head of the DNC illegally gave Hillary the questions…
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Friday demanded the return of an underwater drone that was seized by China as an American crew was moving in to retrieve it. The episode threatens to increase tensions in a region already fraught with great-power rivalries. A Chinese warship had been shadowing the Bowditch, a United States naval vessel,…
EFF has run a full-page ad in this month’s Wired, addressed to the technology industry, under the banner “Your threat model just changed,” warning them that the incoming administration has vowed to spy on and deport millions of their fellow Americans on the basis of religion and race, and that they are in grave risk…