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"I feel like I’m in jail": Hospital alarms torment patients
Nearly every machine in a hospital is now outfitted with an alarm ― infusion pumps, ventilators, bedside monitors tracking blood pressure, heart activity and a drop in oxygen in the blood. Even beds are alarmed to detect movement that might portend a fall. The glut of noise means that the medica…
How Aldous Huxley prophesied the Big Data nightmare
In 1958 the journalist Mike Wallace interviewed Aldous Huxley, the British author best known for writing "Brave New World." This dystopian sci-fi novel, published in 1932, takes place in the fictional and future World State society, where human beings are produced in laboratories and assigned to…
Report: Rudy Giuliani is running a backchannel with Ukraine to take down Mueller, Trump's critics
A new report reveals that Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor currently working as President Donald Trump's lawyer, has established a backchannel with the Ukrainian government in order to dig up dirt on potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
Lev Parnas and Igor Frum…
Facial recognition data collected by U.S. customs agency stolen by hackers
One of the key fears that critics of mass surveillance and the proliferation of facial recognition technology have warned about has been realized with new reporting Monday that a "malicious cyber attack" has resulted in photos of airport passengers and other personal data harvested by U.S. Custo…
Mueller's report: A profile of a president willing to sell out his country
When Attorney General William Barr provided a brief, four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation on March 22, it was obvious there were more questions remaining than answers. The full report was rumored to have clocked in at well over three hundred pages and Barr’s summar…
GOP gerrymandering helped Republicans hold 16 House seats in 2018 midterms
A new study reveals that, although Democrats were able to regain control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years during the 2018 midterm elections, their gains were offset by the effects of Republican gerrymandering over the past decade.
Democrats would have pic…
Fight for your right... to repair
Is the rise in the popularity of cell phone cameras to blame? Not necessarily. Professional and amateur photographers alike still use film and digital cameras. Both cameras and phones need repair — and even if there’s a shop in your town that repairs phones, they probably can’t totally fix the i…
Elizabeth Warren receives standing ovation at surprise visit to Native American conference: report
Warren spoke at the National Indian Women's "Supporting Each Other" lunch, where she introduced Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, the chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah in Massachusetts, HuffPost first reported. The luncheon took place during an annual meeting of the National Congress …
Brett Kavanaugh’s perjury avalanche — 50 years in the making
The nomination process has been polluted by lies for decades, it's time to scrub the process
Behind the latest Catholic sex abuse scandal: The church’s problem is male dominance
Both sexual predation and anti-choice politics are rooted in patriarchal ideology and a culture of sexual shame.
"The cover-up was sophisticated. And all the while, shockingly, church leadership kept records of the abuse and the cover-up," Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said …
On climate change, it’s time to start panicking
It is time for us to panic about global warming. Indeed, a proper state of panic is long overdue.
Global warming has made the news for a number of reasons this week: The Supreme Court rejected a request by President Donald Trump to halt a lawsuit by children and teenagers to force the fe…