Business
These Are The Top 20 Tech Investors You Should Follow On Twitter
If you follow the right investors on Twitter, you can gain a lot of insight into how they think, the types of startups they find most interesting, and markets that are ripe for disruption. … [Read More...]
Sweet Minimalist Movie Posters Of Your All-Time Favorite Flicks
This is really cool. Michael Krasnopolski, an art director and graphic designer from Poland, has allowed us to republish the "minimalist" movie posters he's created for basically every epic adventure/thriller movie you've ever loved (and some … [Read More...]
Satellite Pictures Show A Revolution Waiting To Happen In Bahrain
Bahrain's poor and overcrowded Shiite majority learned what a raw deal they were getting in 2006, when they saw satellite images of lavish palaces and empty land owned by the Sunni monarchy. The images, which circulated … [Read More...]
America’s Top Colleges Have A Rich-Kid Problem
In case you ever wondered just how much wealthy students dominate America's top colleges, here's a nice illustration from a … [Read More...]
Foreign Policy
Lauren Consky, Daniel Scolnic – New York Times
Lauren Consky, Daniel ScolnicNew York TimesShe graduated from McGill University and received a master's degree in international relations and economics from Johns Hopkins University. ... He is also an adjunct professor of Judaic studies at … [Read More...]
North Korea Glosses Over Tensions After Its Special Envoy Visits China – New York Times
LivemintNorth Korea Glosses Over Tensions After Its Special Envoy Visits ChinaNew York TimesAn account by the official Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang, its first report on last week's visit by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, was at odds … [Read More...]
Expert: US Foreign Policy in ‘Retreat’ – Voice of America
Expert: US Foreign Policy in 'Retreat'Voice of AmericaVali Nasr, who is now dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), said the Obama administration has concluded that the best way forward for … [Read More...]
Justice
White People Stopped By New York Police Are More Likely To Have Guns Or Drugs Than Minorities
(Credit: AP)During the just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but … [Read More...]
Woman Raped By Ex-Boyfriend Because Police Didn’t Have Enough Funding To Send Help
Last August, a woman in Josephine County called 911 and pleaded with dispatchers to send police — “my ex-boyfriend is trying to break into my house. I’m not letting him in but he’s like, tried to break down the door and he’s … [Read More...]
As Corporate Accountability Barriers Grow, Chamber Of Commerce Still Claims ‘Lawsuit Abuse’
Under both the influence of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, and corporate spending in state courts around the country, procedural wins have imposed new onerous hurdles on individuals aiming to hold businesses accountable for their … [Read More...]
Elections 2012
Column: What war on the press?
By Jack Shafer (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has declared war on the press, say writers at Slate, the Daily Beast, Reason, the Washington Post (Jennifer Rubin, Dana Milbank and Leonard Downie Jr.), Commentary, National Journal (Ron … [Read More...]
Fox News Is a Terrible Advocate for Freedom of the Press
Roger Ailes is full of self-righteous outrage that the Department of Justice subpoenaed Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal emails as it investigated the leak of classified information about North Korea. It's a recent conversion after … [Read More...]
The Edge: Scandals? What Scandals? This Week Is Historical for Another Reason
The Edge is National Journal's daily look at today in Washington -- and what's coming next. The email features analysis from NJ's top correspondents, the biggest stories of the day -- and always a few surprises. To subscribe, click here. … [Read More...]
Politics & Media
Fox News Watch Blasts Media: ‘Obama’s Prom Picture Got More Attention Than IRS Scandal’
Jon Scott led a Fox News Watch roundtable on Saturday afternoon on media flippancy over the IRS scandal. “Are the media taking this … [Read More...]
(UPDATED) Fox News Knew of Department of Justice Subpoena in 2009, According To Report
UPDATE: The New York Times Updated Their Story Below: It is not clear how often the government has obtained reporters’ communications records. … [Read More...]
Jan Brewer Ain’t Bluffing: AZ Governor Vetoing All Bills Until Medicaid Expansion Passes
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer‘s characteristic stubbornness, was on full display Friday for a jaw-dropping cause: Medicaid. Making good on a … [Read More...]
Alex Jones Responds To Maddow’s Take Down: ‘I’m Attracted To Mr. Maddow, And That Really Conflicts My…’
Alex Jones responded to Rachel Maddow‘s skewering of his special tornado-weather-machine-conspiracy theory on his radio show Friday by … [Read More...]
Economy
Man Who Paid His Mortgage Early Facing Foreclosure
Etienne Syldor (Credit: WFTV)Etienne Syldor, an Orlando resident who works as a bus driver at Walt Disney World, says that Wells Fargo has … [Read More...]
Fast Food Workers Speak Out About Wage Theft
Fast food workers strike in New York (Credit: Salon)Workers in the service industry have taken action against their large employers, conducting … [Read More...]
Meet The People Who Are Subverting Wall Street Reform
Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Mark Wetjen Three years after Congress passed sweeping reforms of Wall Street, the industry has … [Read More...]
More And More Americans Are Feeling The Impact Of Sequestration Cuts
A new poll for ABC by Langer Research Associates finds that nearly four in ten Americans say sequestration has hurt them personally, up from just … [Read More...]
