Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information. Contrary to user expectations and Facebook … Continue reading You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads.

A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate change Article is from last year, but in light of the most recent climate change report, perhaps a solution to addressing the problem is to first figure out how to work with these companies.. … Continue reading Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says

Hot off the news of a massive user-data breach, today Facebook is entering the smart display wars with Portal, a connected gadget with speakers and a screen, built-in Alexa integration, and even … Continue reading Facebook Launches a Camera for Your Home—What Could Possibly Go Wrong

The economy still has room to grow. The answer is that the unemployment rate is based on people looking for work and people working. It doesn’t take into account the number of … Continue reading The US unemployment rate is at a 48-year low—so why are so many Americans still out of work?

This stark contrast between Republicans and Democrats was front-and-center at the second annual Modern Monetary Theory conference. People are starting to learn exactly how money works, and it’s about time, because the … Continue reading Modern Monetary Theory Grapples With People Actually Paying Attention to It

Youtube has removed China Uncensored from search suggestions as Google faces scrutiny for Project Dragonfly, allegedly a censored web search app for China This is what happens when you push for companies … Continue reading YouTube Scraps Most Popular Channel on China Politics From Search Suggestions

There is a perfectly legal and viable solution to all this: Pack the Supreme Court. Pack it as soon as possible. Progressive policies will never happen unless the Democrats pack the Supreme … Continue reading Pack the Supreme Court

The new conservative talking point: There is a broad consensus among economists that large and persistent deficits slow economic growth by lowering savings and investment. Workers are less productive than they would … Continue reading Conservative Intellectuals Have a New and Absurd Theory for Why Wages Aren’t Rising Faster

Kavanaugh interrupted senators, raised his voice and put down Democratic senators. This raises questions about his ability to be a fair justice. You want a fair and impartial judge on the Supreme … Continue reading Brett Kavanaugh’s angry display of partisanship disqualifies him for the Supreme Court – Los Angeles Times

The social networking giant confirmed Friday that sites you use Facebook to login to could have been accessed as a result of its massive breach. Great, another example of why making Facebook … Continue reading The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook

The United States ranked sixth in the world for healthcare and education in 1990, but has since fallen behind its peers. This is partly the result of reduced and poorly allocated funds … Continue reading US ranks 27th for healthcare and education, down from sixth place in 1990

The idea that the nation state would wither away was based on three separate arguments. The first was that the barriers to the global free movement of goods, services, people and money … Continue reading The truth is that Trump has a point about globalisation