Bowing to pressure from a right-wing group, Walmart will exile Cosmopolitan magazine from checkout lanes in its 5,000-plus stores across the United States. Henceforth, people who want to pay to read “10 Things Guys Crave in Bed” or “The New Science of…
Our long national nightmare is over: Stormy Daniels broke her silence Sunday about her alleged assignation with Donald Trump. During a segment on the CBS news program 60 Minutes, Daniels told Anderson Cooper that she’d been threatened by an unknown man…
If you’ve ever wondered what the United States would look like if we forswore the First Amendment and made politically correct speech codes the law of the land, look no further than the United Kingdom, where tweeting a bad joke…
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden pretty much threw himself in front of the proposed Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) on Wednesday, offering a lonely but impassioned speech on the Senate floor in opposition to the legislation, which seeks to make online adult…
In twinned stories posted over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, the London Guardian and the New York Times dropped a bombshell that reverberated on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2014, they reported, the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had surreptitiously acquired information from the personal…
UPDATE: On Wednesday afternoon the U.S. Senate passed FOSTA Frankenstein 97 to 2. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden was the only senator to speak in opposition to the bill. The Senate overwhelmingly voted down his amendment to allocate funding for sex…
U.S. Sen. John McCain received thousands of dollars in contributions from executives at the Silicon Valley healthcare-technology company Theranos. In a symbiotic relationship reminiscent of his involvement in the Keating Five scandal of the late 1980s, the Arizona Republican played…
After issuing multiple warnings to Britain First that the group was violating the social-media platform’s “Community Standards,” Facebook has banned the London-based nationalist organization from its platform. Britain First’s Facebook page was taken down, as were the pages of its two…
Senator Ron Wyden is taking a page from Mel Brooks’s 1974 comedy classic Young Frankenstein in a bid to alter the disastrous Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) — a.k.a. the “Frankenstein bill” — which is galumphing toward a vote…
The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which detractors have dubbed the “Frankenstein bill,” just lurched one step closer to passage by the U.S. Senate. On Wednesday, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to limit debate on the controversial anti-sex-trafficking measure,…
