Russian bots are tweeting their support of embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham

Russian bots are tweeting their support of embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham

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The Washington Post reports: Embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham has found some unlikely allies: Russian bots. Russian-linked Twitter accounts have rallied around the conservative talk-show host, who has come under fire for attacking the young survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. According to the website Hamilton 68, which tracks the spread of Russian propaganda on Twitter, the hashtag #IstandwithLaura jumped 2,800 percent in 48 hours this weekend. On Saturday night, it was the top trending hashtag among Russian…

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America still needs a radical revolution of values

America still needs a radical revolution of values

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William J Barber II writes: In the summer of 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. visited homes in the hamlet of Marks, Mississippi. Later he remembered the hundreds of children who lacked shoes. A mother told King that her children had no clothes for school. The Nobel laureate wept openly. “They didn’t even have any blankets to cover their children up on a cold night,” he recalled. “And I said to myself, God does not like this.” Then he vowed, “We…

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Are today’s teenagers smarter and better than we think?

Are today’s teenagers smarter and better than we think?

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Tara Parker-Pope writes: Today’s teenagers have been raised on cellphones and social media. Should we worry about them or just get out of their way? A recent wave of student protests around the country has provided a close-up view of Generation Z in action, and many adults have been surprised. While there has been much hand-wringing about this cohort, also called iGen or the Post-Millennials, the stereotype of a disengaged, entitled and social-media-addicted generation doesn’t match the poised, media-savvy and…

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How do you deal with your brother becoming a huge star in the white supremacy movement?

How do you deal with your brother becoming a huge star in the white supremacy movement?

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Gabriel Thompson writes: On a Saturday evening in April of 2017, Josh Damigo was home in Oxnard, California, about 50 miles up the coast from Los Angeles, when he received a text message from a friend. “Are you OK?” she asked. “Kinda,” he texted back. “Why do you ask?” “Um, your brother is all over Twitter right now.” Josh went online. “Oh shit,” he wrote back. That morning, a motley collection of people—from mainstream Donald Trump supporters to helmeted militia…

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AggregateIQ: The obscure Canadian tech firm and the Brexit data riddle

AggregateIQ: The obscure Canadian tech firm and the Brexit data riddle

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Carole Cadwalladr reports: “Find Christopher Wylie.” That instruction – 13 months ago – came from the very first ex-Cambridge Analytica employee I met. He was unequivocal. Wylie would have answers to the two questions that were troubling me most. He could tell me about Facebook. And he would know about Canada. What Christopher Wylie knows about Facebook, the world now knows. Facebook certainly knows – its market value is down $100bn. But the Canadian connection remains more elusive. What it…

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The interstitium, the largest organ we never knew we had

The interstitium, the largest organ we never knew we had

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Tanya Basu writes: What is an organ? Anatomy textbooks are rather fuzzy about what defines an “organ,” requiring one to have primary tissue—parenchyma—and “sporadic” tissue, called stroma, which can be nerves, vessels, and other connective tissue. Organs are the necessary building blocks of organisms (hence, the name), and can be gigantic or microscopic. So long as cells clump together to form tissues, and these tissues organize themselves into organs that perform specific functions in the survival of an organism, that…

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Our children are acting like leaders because our leaders act like children

Our children are acting like leaders because our leaders act like children

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Ann Hulbert writes: Anyone used to worrying about coddled young people, their backbone eroded by oversolicitous elders and smartphone addiction, was in for a surprisingly mature show of spine at last weekend’s March for Our Lives. The Parkland, Florida, survivors-turned-prodigy-activists and their followers—along with Dreamers and other youthful protesters lately—couldn’t possibly be denounced as out-of-control “bums,” President Nixon’s epithet for (older) student protesters half a century ago. Quite the contrary. These young people do grit and gumption with star-pupil poise…

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How new data is transforming our understanding of place cells — the brain’s GPS

How new data is transforming our understanding of place cells — the brain’s GPS

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Adithya Rajagopalan writes: The first pieces of the brain’s “inner GPS” started coming to light in 1970. In the laboratories of University College London, John O’Keefe and his student Jonathan Dostrovsky recorded the electrical activity of neurons in the hippocampus of freely moving rats. They found a group of neurons that increased their activity only when a rat found itself in a particular location. They called them “place cells.” Building on these early findings, O’Keefe and his colleague Lynn Nadel…

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More immigrants = less crime

More immigrants = less crime

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The New York Times reports: The Trump administration’s first year of immigration policy has relied on claims that immigrants bring crime into America. President Trump’s latest target is sanctuary cities. “Every day, sanctuary cities release illegal immigrants, drug dealers, traffickers, gang members back into our communities,” he said last week. “They’re safe havens for just some terrible people.” As of 2017, according to Gallup polls, almost half of Americans agreed that immigrants make crime worse. But is it true that…

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There is indeed a witch hunt. It’s led by Fox News against Robert Mueller

There is indeed a witch hunt. It’s led by Fox News against Robert Mueller

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Former Fox News strategic analyst, Ralph Peters writes: I was the one person on the Fox payroll who, trained in Russian studies and the Russian language, had been face to face with Russian intelligence officers in the Kremlin and in far-flung provinces. I have traveled widely in and written extensively about the region. Yet I could only rarely and briefly comment on the paramount security question of our time: whether Putin and his security services ensnared the man who would…

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Trump calls on all victims of sexual assault perpetrated by him to hold him accountable

Trump calls on all victims of sexual assault perpetrated by him to hold him accountable

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Donald J Trump declares: We must respond to sexual assault by identifying and holding perpetrators accountable. Too often, however, the victims of assault remain silent. They may fear retribution from their offender, lack faith in the justice system, or have difficulty confronting the pain associated with the traumatic experience. My Administration is committed to raising awareness about sexual assault and to empowering victims to identify perpetrators so that they can be held accountable. We must make it as easy as…

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Trump walks away from his vow to ‘utterly destroy ISIS’

Trump walks away from his vow to ‘utterly destroy ISIS’

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ABC News reports: President Donald Trump surprised even the most senior members of his Cabinet when he announced Thursday during a speech in Ohio that the U.S. military would be “coming out of Syria, like, very soon,” according to a senior administration official and a U.S. official familiar with the matter. The president has expressed to top members of his national security team that he would like to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, but none of them expected he’d say…

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It’s time to go after Vladimir Putin’s money in the West

It’s time to go after Vladimir Putin’s money in the West

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Anders Aslund writes: Putin controls the Russian state institutions, its secret police and its big state companies. Together with a few old friends from St. Petersburg, the president is tapping the big state companies through overpriced no-bid procurement, transfer pricing, asset stripping and stock manipulation. They are also making money by extorting old oligarchs and taking loans from state banks, not to be returned. Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered outside of the Kremlin, and still-active opposition politician Vladimir Milov exposed…

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FBI questions Ted Malloch, a Trump defender who opposes the ‘globalist Luciferian agenda’

FBI questions Ted Malloch, a Trump defender who opposes the ‘globalist Luciferian agenda’

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When Ted Malloch was interrogated by the FBI at Boston’s Logan airport on Wednesday, it’s unclear whether he contacted a lawyer but he did reach out to the head of the Washington D.C. news bureau for InfoWars, Jerome Corsi. Malloch became a source of controversy in 2016 when he was floated in media reports as a possible US ambassador to the EU, following an aggressive campaign in which, according to several reports at the time, he promoted himself as a…

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Author of Facebook’s ‘ugly truth’ memo says he didn’t agree with what he wrote — employees call for stronger vetting for potential whistle-blowers

Author of Facebook’s ‘ugly truth’ memo says he didn’t agree with what he wrote — employees call for stronger vetting for potential whistle-blowers

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The New York Times reports: Late Thursday, [Andrew Bosworth] said he did not agree with what he wrote in the memo “and I didn’t agree with it even when I wrote it.” He added that “the purpose of this post, like many others I have written internally, was to bring to the surface issues I felt deserved more discussion with the broader company.” After BuzzFeed published the memo, Mr. Bosworth deleted it from an internal message board where it had…

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