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...]
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
Mass. Senate Race Gets Ugly: GOP Candidate Calls Rival ‘Pond Scum’ For Bin Laden Imagery In Ad
The Massachusetts special election race for the Senate is getting more combative, with election day only a month away. Democrat Ed Markey this … [Read More...]
On Gitmo, Obama Is Stuck Between Code Pink And Fox News
President Obama delivered his highly-anticipated, major, hour-long speech on his administration’s counterterrorism policies yesterday, and … [Read More...]
Dem And GOP Groups Battle Over CA Race With Arrested Development And Mean Girls References
Politicians these days never miss a trick to show the people they represent that they GET IT. They have the same likes and dislikes as us. They … [Read More...]
Just Released Oklahoma 911 Calls Capture Terror In Path Of Tornado
9-1-1 recordings from Moore, Oklahoma, gave a harrowing glimpse of the experiences of tornado victims, as CNN juxtaposed tapes of the emergency … [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...]
