The story should sound familiar: A rogue regime, condemned, isolated, and sanctioned by the international community for its human rights abuses, sees enemies amassing on its borders and questions the reliability of its longtime allies. The only way to protect itself from invasion and establish its legitimacy as a world power, it believes, is to develop a nuclear weapons program.
Antitrust in the HouseThe most recent major antitrust case in the U.S. happened 20 years ago, when the federal government went after Microsoft. In the decades since, technology companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon have sprung up and,… Read MoreWith Hulu and Netflix’s Fyre Festival Docs, Instagram Influencers Get Their Gimme ShelterIf every generation gets the musical gathering it deserves, millennials may have grounds to sue the Fyre Festival for mass defamation of character. The equivalent of a Ponzi scheme for would-be social media influencers, Fyre … Read MoreThe Angle: The Skewed EditionDon’t force me out: On a recent episode of Slate’s daily news podcast What Next, Dahlia Lithwick joined with host Mary Harris to talk about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health and the people wondering why she didn’t step down from t… Read MoreTax Their Stuff, Not Their MoneyListen to Slate’s The Gist:
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… Read MoreAtlanta Man Arrested for Alleged Terrorist Plot to “Blow a Hole in the White House”A Georgia man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a terrorist plot to attack the White House, as well as the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Hasher Jallal Taheb had been on the FBI’s radar since March, when … Read More
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