What to Do If You’ve Been Hacked
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have been working from home, banking from home, attending school from home, and doing pretty much anything else imaginable from home. But unfortunately, bad actors...
A New Form of Slavery? Meet Incarcerated Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires for $1 an...
Wildfires with the hidden men and women on the front lines of the state’s ever-growing fire season: prisoner firefighters. Of the 13,000 firefighters battling blazes across the state, more than 2,500...
Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
One common response to the national anthem protests originated by Colin Kaepernick is to disparage them as polarizing. Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe, summed up this particular critique in a tweet:
This...
Remembering Mohamed Bouazizi: The man who sparked the Arab Spring
It is 9pm and Ali, who is now 48 years old, has just returned home from work in his mini-market in Sidi Bouzid, a small town in the centre of Tunisia.
Ali...
Test Out Next-Gen Space Tech in Kerbal Space Program
Sure, a real-life Epstein drive is still a few breakthroughs away. But the rocket-building game lets you pilot a fusion-propelled craft right now.
Most games lose relevance after a few years, but...
Black Voters Matter: Group Sues Georgia for Purging 200,000 Voters Ahead of 2020 Election
On the voter registration deadline for Georgians who want to vote in two Senate runoff elections on January 5, we speak with Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of Black Voters...
Virginia’s Marijuana Decriminalization: What It Means And How It Works
It’s not the same thing as legalization, but Democrats say it’s a step on the way.
Marijuana has been an issue for Virginia’s General Assembly for decades, going back as far as...
Meet the College Senior Who Built a COVID Tracker After CDC Blocked from Tracing...
As the number of people in President Trump’s orbit who test positive for COVID-19 continues to grow, we meet a student journalist who is doing what the White House doesn’t want the CDC to...
The problems AI has today go back centuries
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, a mining magnate who had...