By: Cecilia Kang – nytimes.com – MARCH 20, 2018 The headquarters of Cambridge Analytica in central London on Tuesday. The company, which worked on President Trump’s campaign, has faced a backlash after reports that it had obtained information on 50 million Facebook users. Jack Taylor/Getty Images Federal regulators and state prosecutors are opening investigations into Facebook. Politicians in the United...

By: Morgan Chalfant – thehill.com – March 18, 2018 Trump administration officials on Thursday accused the Russian government of staging a multi-year cyberattack campaign against the energy grid and other elements of critical infrastructure in the United States. The alert from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI coincided with the administration’s decision to unveil new sanctions on Russia...

By Garrett Kell – erlc.com – February 28, 2018 In the summer of 1998, a friend and I spent an evening together. A few weeks later she told me she was pregnant, and it was mine. Neither of us expected it, and neither of us felt ready to raise a child together. We were not in love and thought it...

It can be tempting to hook up everything you love to the internet. But take a moment to appreciate some of the objects that can remain unplugged. By: Brian X. Chen – nytimes.com – February 21, 2018 It still feels magical to light up your living room by saying “Alexa, turn on the lights.” But with all the hype surrounding...

By: John W. Whitehead – rutherford.org – June 26, 2017 “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, dissenting in Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 341 (1966) The government has become an expert in finding...

By: Kathleen Marquardt – americanpolicy.org – February 28, 2017 “The great lesson of the group process, in which all others are involved, is that particularism, however magnified, is no longer possible. There is no magic by which selfishness becomes patriotism the moment we can invoke the nation. The change must be this: as we see now that a nation cannot...

By: Jessica Guynn – usatoday.com – Feb. 13, 2018 Mark Zuckerberg says recent changes have reduced the amount of time users spend on Facebook by 50 million hours each day, but those changes aren’t the only reasons, according to users. USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — Mikita Burton has had a Facebook account for nine years, nearly as long as her...

By: Tyler O’Neil – pjmedia.com – January 31, 2018 News broke last week that Chinese scientists have successfully cloned two monkeys, breaking what is known as the “primate barrier.” With the healthy birth of two Macaque monkeys, scientists have achieved the reproductive cloning of primates, the mammal order that includes monkeys, apes, and humans. This represents a significant step toward...

By Nancy R. Pearcey – FoxNews.com – January 6, 2018 We typically picture the movers and shakers in Silicon Valley as brilliant if geeky walking intellects, hunched over their computers, inventing new gadgets. But this week Vanity Fair published a book excerpt by Emily Chang revealing that Silicon Valley is as sexually debauched as Hollywood, the political world and the...

By Nancy R. Pearcey – FoxNews.com – January 6, 2018 We typically picture the movers and shakers in Silicon Valley as brilliant if geeky walking intellects, hunched over their computers, inventing new gadgets. But this week Vanity Fair published a book excerpt by Emily Chang revealing that Silicon Valley is as sexually debauched as Hollywood, the political world and the...