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Pregnant women say they miscarried in immigration detention and didn’t get the care they needed

Pregnant women say they miscarried in immigration detention and didn’t get the care they needed

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BuzzFeed reports: Two weeks after arriving in the US seeking asylum, E, 23, found herself in a detention cell in San Luis, Arizona, bleeding profusely and begging for help from staff at the facility. She was four months pregnant and felt like she was losing her baby. She had come to the US from El Salvador after finding out she was pregnant, in the hopes of raising her son in a safer home. “An official arrived and they said it…

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Inside China’s dystopian dreams: AI, shame and lots of cameras

Inside China’s dystopian dreams: AI, shame and lots of cameras

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Paul Mozur writes: In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station. In Qingdao, a city famous for its German colonial heritage, cameras powered by artificial intelligence helped the police snatch two dozen criminal suspects in the midst of a big annual beer festival. In Wuhu, a fugitive murder suspect was identified by a camera as he bought food from a street vendor. With millions of cameras and…

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How Silicon Valley fuels an informal caste system

How Silicon Valley fuels an informal caste system

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Antonio García Martínez writes: California is the future of the United States, goes the oft-cited cliché. What the US is doing now, Europe will be doing in five years, goes another. Given those truthy maxims, let’s examine the socioeconomics of the “City by the Bay” as a harbinger of what’s to come. Data shows that technology and services make up a large fraction of citywide employment. It also shows that unemployment and housing prices follow the tech industry’s boom-and-bust cycle….

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Marcy Wheeler’s decision to out her source to the FBI

Marcy Wheeler’s decision to out her source to the FBI

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Margaret Sullivan writes: It’s pretty much an inviolable rule of journalism: Protect your sources. Reporters have gone to jail to keep that covenant. But Marcy Wheeler, who writes a well-regarded national security blog, not only revealed a source — she did so to the FBI, eventually becoming a witness in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of President Trump’s possible connections to Russia. “On its face, I broke one of the cardinal rules of journalism, but what he was…

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Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times

Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times

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The Guardian reports: Arron Banks’ Leave.EU campaign team met with Russian embassy officials as many as 11 times in the run-up to the EU referendum and in the two months beyond, documents seen by the Observer suggest – seven more times than Banks has admitted. The same documents suggest the Russian embassy extended a further four invitations to Brexit’s biggest funder, but it is not known if they were accepted. It is the third time the number of such meetings…

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How the remorseless rise of the Swedish far right could leave the country ungovernable

How the remorseless rise of the Swedish far right could leave the country ungovernable

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Richard Milne writes: Every July, Sweden provides one of the world’s great democratic displays. Politicians of all hues descend on the Baltic island of Gotland for the annual Almedalen festival (1-8 July), meeting voters and debating issues ranging from forestry and fake news to immigration and imams in schools. But in advance of the general election on 9 September, a spectre haunted this year’s Almedalen. Swedish politics is facing its most severe test for decades. The consensual, egalitarian model that…

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Families torn apart by Trump administration are difficult to unite

Families torn apart by Trump administration are difficult to unite

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The New York Times reports: Faced with a court-imposed deadline to reunite families separated at the southwest border, federal authorities are calling in volunteers to sort through records and resorting to DNA tests to match children with parents. And they acknowledged for the first time Thursday that of the nearly 3,000 children who are still in federal custody, about 100 are under the age of 5. The family separations, part of an aggressive effort by the Trump administration to deter…

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A massive study solidifies the link between air pollution from cars and diabetes

A massive study solidifies the link between air pollution from cars and diabetes

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Olga Khazan reports: It’s fairly well known that a bad diet, a lack of exercise, and genetics can all contribute to type 2 diabetes. But a new global study points to an additional, surprising culprit: the air pollution emitted by cars and trucks. Though other research has shown a link between diabetes and air pollution in the past, this study is one of the largest of its kind, and it’s unique because it both is longitudinal and includes several types…

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Science and the Loss of Confidence Project

Science and the Loss of Confidence Project

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla writes: In September 2016, the psychologist Dana Carney came forward with a confession: She no longer believed the findings of a high-profile study she co-authored in 2010 to be true. The study was about “power-posing” — a theory suggesting that powerful stances can psychologically and physiologically help one when under high-pressure situations. Carney’s co-author, Amy Cuddy, a psychologist at Harvard University, had earned much fame from power poses, and her 2012 TED talk on the topic is…

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After being held by the U.S. govt, children returned to their parents covered in dirt and lice

After being held by the U.S. govt, children returned to their parents covered in dirt and lice

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PBS reports: Last week, Democratic attorneys general in 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing that its family separation policy violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fifth Amendment. Now, in a new filing, they’re asking the federal government to provide more immediate information and access to those detained under the policy on an “expedited schedule.” The motion filed Monday came with more than 900 pages of declarations that…

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Donald Trump’s commitment to white supremacy

Donald Trump’s commitment to white supremacy

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Jamelle Bouie writes: Under the Trump administration, even naturalized citizens are now a target. The government agency that oversees immigration applications is hiring lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants suspected of obtaining citizenship through fake identities or other false information on their applications. Cases would be referred to the Department of Justice, where offenders could lose their citizenship or legal status. “We finally have a process in place to get to the bottom of all these bad…

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U.S. Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits

U.S. Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits

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The Associated Press reports: Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned. The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been booted from the Army, but immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 who have been discharged or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their futures. “It was…

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What makes the new acting EPA chief even worse than Scott Pruitt

What makes the new acting EPA chief even worse than Scott Pruitt

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Alexander C. Kaufman reports: Just one year ago, Andrew Wheeler worked as one of the coal industry’s most powerful lobbyists, serving as coal baron Bob Murray’s Capitol Hill muscle, challenging environmental regulations and casting doubt on the science behind climate change. On Monday, Wheeler will take over at the Environmental Protection Agency, after Administrator Scott Pruitt’s sudden resignation Thursday amid a five-month avalanche of ethics and legal controversies. Wheeler’s ascension, while expected to return stability to the scandal-struck EPA, demonstrates…

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According to the Aztecs, improvement doesn’t come from the self

According to the Aztecs, improvement doesn’t come from the self

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Sebastian Purcell writes: When Halloween rolled around last year, my wife and I were prepared to be greeted by scores of eager trick-or-treaters. Guided by the thought that too much candy was better than too little, we bought entirely too much, and simply poured the excess on to a platter in our living room. The problem is: I have a sweet-tooth. ‘I can’t stop eating these!’ I said to my wife, peevishly, a few days later. Nearly every time I…

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