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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at an Entrepreneurial Refugee Network event in the UK. | Matt Crossick/PA Images via Getty Images Twitter just released the first iteration of its policies banning political ads — and appears to have changed course on CEO Jack Dorsey’s declaration it would ban issue ads. Twitter’s public honeymoon after its announcementContinue reading “Twitter is walking into a minefield with its political ads ban”

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives for the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on November 15, 2019. | Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Probably not, but here’s why it likely doesn’t matter anyway. When Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, testified on Capitol Hill FridayContinue reading “Did Trump just commit witness tampering? I asked 7 legal experts.”

The consequences of climate change can be weird and apocalyptic. You can find evidence of a changing climate everywhere on Earth. But nowhere are the changes more dramatic than in the Arctic. Our world’s northern polar region is warming twice as fast as the global average. And the consequences are easy to spot. On average,Continue reading “Melting permafrost in the Arctic is unlocking diseases and warping the landscape”

Most fare evaders are one-time offenders, according to research from the Public Transport Research Group in Australia. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images New York City has increased policing to curb fare dodging. It’s resulted in outrage and protests from some riders. When Allure editor Rosemary Donahue witnessed New York City transit workers installing cameras in frontContinue reading “Fare evasion costs cities millions. But will cracking down on it solve anything?”

Norris Henderson, an activist for criminal justice reform including voting rights for former prisoners, in New Orleans, on November 7, 2019. | Akasha Rabut for Vox Ex-prisoners are getting their voting rights back. But the backlash has already started. Shauntelle Mitchell waited in her local polling station in Slidell, Louisiana, and contemplated leaving. The OctoberContinue reading “The battle for voting rights in the age of mass incarceration”

Alex Wong/Getty The investigation is now complete. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team indicted or got guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies during their lengthy investigation. That group is composed of six former Trump advisers, 26 Russian nationals, three Russian companies, one California man, and one London-based lawyer. Seven of these people (including fiveContinue reading “All of Robert Mueller’s indictments and plea deals in the Russia investigation”

iStockphoto/Getty Images 9 questions about biohacking you were too embarrassed to ask. Even if you haven’t heard the term “biohacking” before, you’ve probably encountered some version of it. Maybe you’ve seen Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey extolling the benefits of fasting intermittently and drinking “salt juice” each morning. Maybe you’ve read about former NASA employee JosiahContinue reading “How biohackers are trying to upgrade their brains, their bodies — and human nature”

Roger Stone, former advisor to President Trump, and his wife Nydia Stone arrive at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse, on November 15, 2019. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images Stone’s trial was the highest-profile loose end remaining from the Mueller investigation. The verdict is in for Roger Stone’s trial — and a Washington, DC, juryContinue reading “Roger Stone was just found guilty on all counts”

An ordinary day in New York City, as captured in The Hottest August. | Grasshopper Films The Hottest August director Brett Story wanted to “look at climate change by looking away from it.” One of the best documentaries of the year is also, on its surface, one of the simplest. To make The Hottest August,Continue reading “The year’s best documentary turns climate change into a sci-fi film”

Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) for the 116th Congress stands outside the Longworth House Office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Rose is introducing a new bill to ban corporate PACs along with Rep. Josh Harder (D-CA). | Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images More Democrats are ditching corporate PACs. A new bill wouldContinue reading “Exclusive: 2 Democrats are introducing a bill to ban corporate PACs”