ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Microsoft, as a provider of cloud services to the U.S. government, is required to regularly submit security plans to officials describing how the company will protect federal computer systems. Yet in a 2025…
By Mr. Maverick Imagine standing at the beach shore, calmly gazing at the endless blue and feeling the gentle breeze. All of a sudden, you feel the earth beneath your feet shaking. Moments later, you spot a tsunami surging furiously in your direction. What do you do? How do you cope with this harrowing situation?…
May 20, 2025 Image Description: An illustration of a top-level view of people walking outside, casting long, dark shadows that stretch next to them. By Graphicook Studio via Unsplash+ “The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and…
As promised by Donald Trump? “We’re going to have prices down- I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions.” Associated Press, Trump holds a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, YouTube (January 7, 2025). And here’s the data we have. Figure 1: CPI (blue), Everyday Price Index (tan), and CPI-limited service restaurants (green), all…
Politics / August 19, 2025 Trump has launched an all-out assault on civic freedoms, but the Democrats aren’t yet giving their base something to vote for. Ad Policy Ballots sit in a tray inside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center on Election Day, November 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)…
Ahead of donning a beige WFP vest and boots to face hurricanes, wars and refugee camps, the Portuguese scientist worked with satellite imagery and cartography, creating maps to support humanitarian missions, until he realised he didn’t want to stay behind a computer screen. On the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, marked annually on 19 August,…
These tweets caught my eye: I suspect that it would be possible to create some sort of argument that the AI boom is hurting the job market, but at the risk of being unserious I don’t find this one to be particularly persuasive. Suppose I made the following argument: Interest rates would be lower if…
The Home Depot logo is displayed outside a store in Los Angeles where immigration agents arrested day laborers after jumping out of a rental moving truck. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Ray Hudson arrived at his local Home Depot in Los Angeles preparing for…
In today’s hyperconnected digital age, the option to “opt out” has become an indicator of privilege. To deliberately disconnect — whether as a celebrity, consumer or brand — is to signal a level of financial and emotional freedom that no longer seeks validation through visibility, but rather finds value in curated absence and controlled access….
By Alexandros Sainidis Have you watched Akeelah and the Bee, the spelling bee movie? I stumbled upon this movie on TV when I was a kid and it was the piece of media that introduced me to using flashcards. Flashcards are based on some very simple mechanisms. You see a hint or a prompt on…