Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist
by Jessica Huseman ProPublica, May 12, 2017, 7 p.m. The USDA’s research section studies everything from climate change to nutrition. Under the 2008 Farm Bill,…
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The Problems With the FBI’s Email Investigation Went Well Beyond Comey
by Peter Elkind, special to ProPublica, May 11, 2017, 3:15 p.m. On Tuesday, when Donald Trump abruptly dismissed the FBI director, James Comey, his administration insisted that he was…
FCC Website hit with Automated Fake Comments in Anti-Net Neutrality Attack
The debate over net neutrality rules has become more heated, with reports surfacing at the Federal Communications Commission of their website being flooded with fake…
With Comey gone, how can Congress investigate Russia, Trump and the 2016 election?
Jordan Tama, American University School of International Service Now that James Comey has been fired as FBI director, how will the U.S. conduct a fair…
Donald Trump fires FBI director and a new national nightmare takes hold
Luca Trenta, Swansea University Ever since Donald Trump took office amid revelations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and his team’s connections with the…
Comey’s Testimony on Huma Abedin Forwarding Emails Was Inaccurate
by Peter Elkind, special to ProPublica, May 8, 2017, 10:39 p.m. FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to…
Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
Don’t panic: An international survey finds concerns about fake news are overblown. studiostoks/shutterstock.com William H. Dutton, Michigan State University In the early years of the…
How pre-existing conditions became front and center in health care vote
Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) speaks to reporters outside the White House on May 3, 2017 after a meeting with the president on proposed legislation that…
How One Major Internet Company Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web
by Ken Schwencke ProPublica, May 4, 2017, 8 a.m. Since its launch in 2013, the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has quickly become the go-to…
Why America’s public media can’t do its job
PBS headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. melanie.phung/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Christopher Chávez, University of Oregon When the Trump administration released its proposed budget in March, it suggested…
Can Bill Nye – or any other science show – really save the world?
Heather Akin, University of Pennsylvania; Bruce W. Hardy, Temple University; Dietram A. Scheufele, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin-Madison Netflix’s new talk…
Facebook’s new anti-fake news strategy is not going to work – but something else might
Paul Ralph, University of Auckland Have you seen some “tips to spot fake news” on your Facebook newsfeed recently? Over the past year, the social…
Trump’s brand of economic populism gets a makeover in first 100 days
Charles Hankla, Georgia State University How can we make sense of the economic policy roller-coaster ride of Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president? Trump’s…
Trump and the history of the ‘first 100 days’
Will history give Trump a thumbs-up for his first 100 days? AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez Robert Speel, Pennsylvania State University The federal government is currently…
People are taking to the streets to defend science – but it could come at a cost
Scientists protest against proposed cuts against science in the UK in 2010. Shane/Flickr, CC BY-SA Joseph Roche, Trinity College Dublin Scientists around the world are facing…
Why I’m supporting Saturday’s March for Science
Simon Chapman, University of Sydney In the early 16th century Copernicus published his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres)….
Palmer Report makes yet another False Claim about Media Bias Fact Check
On 4/18/17 Bill Palmer of the Palmer Report decided to make up another false claim, without evidence, against Media Bias Fact Check. In his libelous…
Facts are not always more important than opinions: here’s why
The message over the doorway to London’s Kirkaldy Testing Museum. But don’t be too quick to believe the facts and dismiss the opinions. Flickr/Kevo Thomson,…
Trump’s Wall: How Much Money Does the Government Have For It Now?
by T. Christian Miller ProPublica, April 13, 2017, 1:34 p.m. During the campaign, President Donald Trump promised to build a wall across the southern border…
Will Turkey’s referendum mark the end of democracy and the birth of ‘Erdoğanistan’?
Kremlin.ru [CC BY 3.0 or CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons Simon P. Watmough, European University Institute and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk, Université de Strasbourg Turkey…