Author: Brad Friedman

We love our coal miners,” the President said as he signed an executive order to lift coal mining’s safety and environmental regulations. Donald Trump spent much of his Presidential campaign cozying up to coal workers and their families in West Virginia, Kentucky and other rural parts of Appalachia, where the industry has been hollowed out...

When Donald Trump revealed his intention to prevent “transgender individuals” from “serv[ing] in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” he lied about having consulted with his “generals and military experts.” He hadn’t. Pentagon officials were as stunned as the rest of the nation by the President’s Twitter announcement. But Trump is a wildly successful liar,...

There’s a reason why I’ve been ranting about the insecurity of computerized voting and tabulation for nearly 15 years: Every single system in all 50 states can be hacked and results manipulated, with little or no possibility of detection. And it doesn’t take a foreign power like Russia to do it. DEF CON, an annual...