Last weekend, President Donald Trump flew to the Middle East to celebrate a ceasefire his administration helped broker between Hamas and Israel, after over two years of war. Still, despite celebrations and the release of surviving hostages, much remains unknown about what will happen next. To cut through the bluster and assess the significance of […]
A new California law will effectively ban a deceptive policing tactic used for years against the families of people killed by police and popularized by the nation’s largest developer of law enforcement policy manuals. The legislation, signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, will require investigators for police agencies and prosecutors’ offices to tell the families […]
The current Supreme Court, helmed by Chief Justice John Roberts, has been focused on chipping away at civil rights laws and policies for 20 years. On Wednesday, the justices will hear oral arguments in a case that could represent not just another chip, but a fatal blow to the load-bearing pillar of American multi-racial democracy: […]
Update, October 15: Bill Pulte filed his missing Form 3 on October 14, after we published this story. For the past month, Donald Trump has been trying to fire Lisa Cook—a renowned economist serving as a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors—over claims that she committed mortgage fraud. Trump’s attempt ended up before the Supreme […]
Oracle, AMD, and Intel predate the internet, and one of them predates the moon landing. Why are there so many wizened faces at the cutting edge of tech?