A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.

A decade or two ago, the notion that 13 men would be plotting the fate of American women’s healthcare behind closed doors, that they would delight in defunding the women’s health organization Planned Parenthood and impeding healthcare access for millions of American women, would have felt like the politics of a bygone era.

An Obama-era program will shift its focus and dollars to groups combating Al Qaeda and ISIS. By Josh Harkinson (Jun. 23, 2017)

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will delay the vote on the Republican leadership's health care bill until after the July 4 recess.

How a group from Rebel Media has been bullying the White House Press Correspondents. By Brian Karem.

Prosecutors charge three officers with conspiracy to cover up the death of a black Chicago teen.

Remember that critical constitutional principle? It’s now endangered. By Scott Lemieux.

The figure released by the Congressional Budget Office is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured under the House version of the legislation.

There could still be a vote soon on Senate GOP legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, Democrats warned on Tuesday.

It is no secret giving up alcohol is trying. There is even a whole charity industry – Sober October and Dry January – which has sprung up in recent years to monopolise on people’s struggle to relinquish booze. This makes it all the more significant and telling that increasing numbers of Americans are willing to give up drinking if it means President Donald Trump was to be impeached.

A Trump-obsessed media and the GOP’s secrecy and speed have stymied the left and put a sweeping conservative bill on the verge of Senate passage.

The legendary consumer advocate describes his decades-long perspective on what brought the Democratic Party to its current state of collapse.

A Southern California group backing President Trump is out with a new ad attacking special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, criticizing the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible cooperation with Russian interference in the 2016 election. The ad, called "Witch Hunt," features conservative favorite Tomi Lahren reflecting Trump's own language to complain about the probe. The more than $400,000 ad buy is expected to start running Sunday.

Almost two years ago, I wrote an article for Politico endorsing Donald Trump for president. It was a tongue-in-cheek effort—I “supported” Trump only because I thought he would lose to Hillary Clinton, disastrously, and that his defeat would cleanse the Republican Party of the extremism and nuttiness that drove me out of it. I had hoped that post-2016, what remained of the moderate wing of the GOP would reassert itself as it did after the Goldwater debacle in 1964, and exorcise the crazies.

Gorsuch, 10 weeks in, has been one of the most conservative members on the high court.

Recent efforts by governments to weaken encryption, introduce exploitable vulnerabilities into applications, and to develop Nation-state dragnet surveillance programs will do little to stymie the rise in terrorist attacks.  These efforts will be a detriment to national security and only further exhaust law enforcement resources and obfuscate adversary communiqués within a massive cloud of noise.

One excuse FCC Chairman Ajit Pai regularly offers to explain his effort to gut net neutrality protections is the claim that open Internet rules have harmed ISPs, especially small ones. During a speech earlier this year, he stressed that 22 small ISPs told him that the 2015 Open Internet Order hurt their ability to invest and deploy. In reality, though, many more ISPs feel very differently. Today, more than 40 ISPs told the FCC that they have had no problem with the Open Internet Order and that it hasn't hurt their ability to develop and expand their networks. What is more, that they want the FCC to do its job and address the problem Congress

A deep-rooted crisis in education, and a long cultural and political decline, is what got us here. There's hope!

There’s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy.

In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” the president also raised questions about the impartiality of the special counsel for the Russia investigation, Robert S. Mueller III.

A Washington Post report on 2016 election interference raises the question: What could Obama have done differently?

US President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing whether to pull out of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations following a "tense" meeting with White House senior staff and officials in Ramallah, according to London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat on Saturday. The report claimed that Trump is to determine the future of reigniting Mideast peace efforts in the near future, including the possibility of withdrawing completely from the process.

A Noah’s ark-themed museum in Williamstown, Kentucky was supposed to bring in a deluge of tourists to flood local businesses and leave owners awash in profits. Instead, a local news outlet reports business proprietors overwhelming say their bottom lines have remained unchanged. That’s particularly bad news considering that Answers in Genesis, the ministry behind the Ark Encounter, was given huge financial breaks, from state tax incentives to generous reductions in property taxes. Now Ken Ham, the Creationist head of AiG, says the blame for the park’s failures should be laid at feet of atheists and the press.

Trolls tried to destroy Ben Garrison’s name—but they also taught him how to internet. Now his cartoons are everywhere. By Emma Grey Ellis.

Senate Republican leaders released their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and they want to hold a vote on the measure next week.

Prosecutors seeking to justify a lengthy sentence (and the abuses that had already occurred) in the Chelsea Manning case insisted the documents she leaked had caused serious damage to those exposed by them. They said this even as multiple government...

We have catalogued nearly every outright lie the president has told publicly since taking the oath of office.

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When an armed black radical group refused to surrender, the police responded with deadly and unprecedented force. By Alex Q. Arbuckle.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced Thursday that the bear, which has been on the endangered species list since 1975, was thriving in the region.

Hillary Clinton would have made a horrifying president; as bad as Trump is. I sincerely believe that our species dodged an even deadlier bullet by keeping Clinton out of office. There is no valid reason for any thinking person to believe that Jill Stein caused this to happen, but if she had I would have personally been eternally grateful to her. By Caitlin Johnstone.

An energized Republican base kept Ossoff from accumulating a significant lead among early voters and doomed the hopes of the anti-Trump activists

In the past decade, liberals have avoided inconvenient truths about the issue. By Peter Beinart.

The Democrats struggle to rise from the ashes. By Andrew Cockburn.

Trump admits he has no tapes of his conversations with James B. Comey, after six long weeks.