Failed Attempt to Smear Jeremy Corbyn Reveals Waning Power of British Tabloids
Efforts to smear the Labour leader went so badly that a former editor of one of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers denounced it as a campaign of "outright lies.”
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A U.S. Journalist Took Thousands of ISIS Files Out of Iraq, Reigniting a Bitter Dispute Over the Theft of Iraqi History
An article in the New York Times has reopened the wound created when the U.S. seized 120 million pages of documents from Iraq after the 2003 invasion.
No, Aziz Ansari's Accuser Is Not Breaking Up #MeToo — the Divisions Have Been There All Along
The debates birthed by Ansari’s accuser reveal where fractures have always existed: along ideological, generational, class, and political lines.
Republican Scare-Mongering on "Sanctuary Cities" Backfires, Democrats Win Big Upset in Florida Special Election
Republicans relied on a campaign around "sanctuary cities" to win a special election in Florida this week. It didn't work.
In a First, U.S. Senator Demands Government Oversight of Predatory “Loot Boxes” in Video Games
New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan has become the first federal lawmaker to call for federal oversight of loot box mechanisms in video games.
Three Years Into the Yemen War, a Collective of Women Street Artists Cope With the Destruction
Haifa Subay leads a group of Yemeni street artists depicting life amid the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
With Latest Syria Threats, Trump Continues to Be More Confrontational Toward Russia Than Obama Was
As usual, the prevailing narrative in official Washington and its media organs is the exact opposite of reality.
Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Voted With GOP to Make it Harder to Hold Bank Executives Accountable
The two Democrats running for governor in Georgia fell on opposite sides of a key vote on the role of the banking industry last year.
No End in Sight: An Egyptian Man’s Ordeal in ICE Custody and the Plight of Indefinite Immigration Detention
In fiscal year 2015, thousands of people detained by ICE had been held for more than a year, including five for more than eight years.
Dan Lipinski Raked in Rail Industry Campaign Dollars While Delaying Safety Standards
Dan Lipinski's push on behalf of the industry has put him at the center of one of most heated public safety controversies of our time.