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The Israel-based firm Cellebrite, which specializes in software that breaches cellphones, enjoys a reputation as a silver bullet in 21st-century policing whose products are used only to beat terrorists and find abducted kids. Like any good, vaguely sinister corporate spy outfitter, the company has never publicly confirmed which governments are among its customers, and deflects questions about whether it would sell…
Add them to the annals of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: works of art calling attention to racism in America’s past — and its persistence in America’s present — targeted by educational censorship campaigns for being too racist. Four such works were challenged in the past month, in fact. This fall, Salem State University put…
In President Obama’s final national security speech on Tuesday, he spoke about the importance of staying true to our values, of not returning to torture, and of transparency. Now, in his remaining time in office, he has an opportunity to take action to advance these goals and to do something of great importance for the…
It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who had been swept into office on a promise to clean up government, end the war in Vietnam, and rid the nation’s capital of the kind of…
President-elect Donald J. Trump has broken with decades of diplomatic practice in freewheeling calls with foreign leaders. close story-meta-footer close story-meta ====================================================== THIS IS A GENERATED TEMPLATE FILE. DO NOT EDIT. ====================================================== this file is generated from src/style.less Dec. 2 Mr. Trump talks to the president of Taiwan, becoming the first U.S. president or president-elect…
.entry-header .entry-meta I was in graduate school when I first heard the term “millennial.” It was at a conference. The session was about how to serve millennial students, because they have different characteristics than the Generation X students that went before them. It was here that I first started hearing things like “millennials need to…
Hide CM floating unit In her 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” Ivanka Trump employs an audacious strategy: she portrays all of her advantages as handicaps. Credit Photograph by Damon Winter / The New York Times / Redux Barrier Status: ‘none’ Ivanka Trump’s 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” opens with an unlikely sentence: “In…
close story-meta Facts hold a sacred place in Western liberal democracies. Whenever democracy seems to be going awry, when voters are manipulated or politicians are ducking questions, we turn to facts for salvation. But they seem to be losing their ability to support consensus. PolitiFact has found that about 70 percent of Donald Trump’s “factual”…
In the week following Donald Trump’s surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, another battle has quietly ramped up on Wikipedia. An examination of the edit histories of pages belonging to Trump’s inner circle reveals a skirmish of vandalisms, revisions and fantastical falsehoods. The tweaks are made visible by “WikiWash,” an online tool developed by Metro News Canada and The…
Until now, the work in this project has focused on the “right-wing” news media ecosystem. The “micro-propaganda” network graph showed a number of smaller sites in the right-wing news ecosystem orbiting as “satellites” around the mainstream media, YouTube, and Google. In the widest-view “right-wing” network graph, red lines show thousands of hyperlinks being directed “in” from the…