People demonstrated in December at FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, against the proposed repeal of net neutrality. Alex Edelman / AFP/Getty Images Another half dozen tech companies are jumping into the legal battle over the FCC’s decision to undo net neutrality rules. Etsy, Foursquare, Kickstarter, Shutterstock, Automattic and Expa filed […]
Daily Archives: March 6, 2018
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Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur were murdered more than two decades ago — in 1996 and 1997 respectively — and yet their pop culture presence has arguably never been stronger. Over the past few months, no less than three television specials and special series have […]
When Clete Samson was a government prosecutor at the Department of Homeland Security’s special immigration court, he says that respecting the constitutional rights of immigrants accused of breaking US laws was part of the job. “It’s a myth that noncitizens don’t have constitutional rights because they are non citizens,” says […]
Hope came to the embattled Syrian region of eastern Ghouta today, as a 46-truck convoy carrying food and humanitarian supplies entered the rebel enclave for the first time in weeks. But before the United Nations convoy could enter, Syrian officials ordered the removal of 70 percent of the medical supplies, […]
WASHINGTON — Citing ill health, Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced Monday that he will resign his Senate seat, effective April 1. The early departure clears the way for Gov. Phil Bryant, a fellow Republican, to appoint an interim successor — perhaps Lt. Gov. Tate […]
The vice president of the EU Commission Jyrki Katainen said Europe can compromise on many things, including Brexit, but not on the “more worrying” threats to the rule of law and media freedom in a swipe at Poland. He said: “Values should not be a nice thing just for anniversaries. […]
US scientists have created a “knot” of atoms, which spin and interact in a way similar to ball lightning. The knot, called a skyrmion, was discovered by scientists at Amherst College in the US and Aalto University in Finland. They used magnetic fields to create the skyrmion, a move which […]