Facebook and the Fake News Problem for U.S. Democracy Facebook’s admirable mission has been to give people the power to share. . . “in order to make the world more open and connected.” In 2007, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted a global presence, and one key...
It is the week before Christmas, 2018. President Trump issued another “tweet” two days ago about removing all U.S. troops from Syria. Nothing illegal about that; it makes sense that a U.S. president heads foreign policy, with the advice and consent of the...
I heard two jock-talkers on Denver AM radio in August of 2018, complaining that the Dodgers “Kiss-Cam” was not nearly as spontaneous as people at Dodger Stadium might think. It turns out that the kiss-cam crew goes around to appealing people and families, has them...
When the Supreme Court of California determined in 2001 that Nike, Inc., might be accountable in a civil action for misleading statements that it made to the press and to the public about its operations in Southeast Asia labor activist, it opened a whole can of worms...
On The Kavanaugh Nomination It is “perfectly legal” to nominate someone to the U.S. Supreme Court whose views on various important matters are far to the right of most Americans. It is “perfectly legal” for the Senate to have held up President Obama’s nominee, Merritt...
