Did Donald Trump Pay to Have His Research Papers Written for Him in College?

When I lived in New York City in 1972, for a brief time I worked at an unethical company that was in the business of hiring unemployed college grads like me to write student research papers and essays for unethical university students who were well off enough to pay for them. I got paid by the page and I never knew the name of the student whose paper I was writing.

May Day Parade Stands Up Against Wage Theft

Activists demand accountability from Power Design, a subcontractor enabling the "race to the bottom" at construction sites around Washington, D.C. As buildings rise in Navy Yard, so too do rents. The rapidly gentrifying pocket of Washington, D.C. has been lining the pockets of developers for years, but the money doesn't always make its way to the construction workers building the luxury apartments popping up around the neighborhood.

Haspel Is the Most Qualified to Run the CIA – That’s Why She’s a Terrible Choice

Gina Haspel is a consummate professional who has served the U.S. intelligence community with distinction for more than 30 years. As the Trump administration's nominee to head up the Central Intelligence Agency, Haspel has received endorsements from six former CIA directors, three former directors of national intelligence, and two former secretaries of state.

Defector: WikiLeaks is Allied with Putin

Kevin Poulsen, The Daily Beast: Last February, leaked messages from a private WikiLeaks chat group offered an unfiltered glimpse of Julian Assange, complete with misogyny, anti-Semitism, and a clear, early preference for a GOP election victory. Now the U.K. man who leaked those messages is stepping forward to explain why he turned on the secret-spilling group, which he argues has abandoned its truth-telling mission altogether.

Why Am I Getting All These Terms of Service Update Emails?

"These are the kind of user-empowering features that some companies would rather you didn't know too much about, so don't be surprised if the only news you hear about them comes from poring over these changes to long documents." Anyone looking at their inbox in the last few months might think that the Internet companies have collectively returned from a term-of-service writers' retreat.

What Do US Pundits Know About North Korea That 88% of South Koreans Don’t?

"Recent developments between North and South Korea have been met with widespread optimism and praise from the South Korean public." According to a recent poll , 88 percent of the South Korean public viewed the recent peace summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in as a success.

The “Too Valuable” Myth

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks at a news conference with other U.S. State Attorney's General to announce a state-based effort to combat climate change in the Manhattan borough of New York City, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own.

New Analysis Suggests GOP Has Finally Realized How Unpopular It Is to …

"A familiar pattern: lie about the intent and consequences of a policy, pass it on behalf of the donor class, and then pivot to totally irrelevant culture war issues and hope the victims are too dumb to notice." -Sean Illing, Vox The GOP's growing reluctance to celebrate their signature legislative achievement of the Trump era may have something to do with Reuters survey data from March showing that a mere three percent of Americans say they have benefited from the tax law, while Wall Street banks and major corporations continue to tout record profits.

Mirroring the Powerful They Often Cover, Major Newspapers Dominated…

A new study offers data to support the commonly-held notion that elite media organizations draw from elite universities in hiring staff, likely contributing to an insular worldview. A recent study offers data to support the commonly-held notion that the news media are staffed largely by Americans from "elite" educational backgrounds-likely placing serious limits on the perspective top news outlets are able to offer about the nation and people on which they are tasked with reporting.

Fox And Friends: Gina Haspel Should Be Proud Of Her Torture Record

Trump's favorite cable news show did its best to defend Gina Haspel's horrific record on torture, as she faces intense scrutiny in her upcoming confirmation hearing to run the CIA on Wednesday. In a Washington Post article, Trump nominee Gina Haskell had offered to pull her nomination as the head of the CIA and that did not sit well with Trump's propaganda team.

In Third Fox News Appearance Representing Trump, Rudy Giuliani Says,…

Apparently, nobody on Team Trump, including counsel Rudy Giuliani, seems to think he should learn the facts before going on television to discuss them and make pronouncements about Donald Trump's legal situation. After his two disastrous appearances discussing the Stormy Daniels case on Fox News earlier this week turned into a bonanza for late-night comics, Giuliani was back on Fox this Saturday night, this time visiting the Justice with Judge Jeanine show.