Politics & Globalization

Google and Facebook are two of the largest and clearest monopolies in the world and, between them, the harvesting of your personal information goes far beyond what most people realize was even possible. Ninety-eight percent of Facebook’s revenue comes from advertising, totaling $39.9 billion last year alone. The more personal information you share, the greater Facebook’s profit stream. Cambridge Analytica is accused of creating a system to profile individual U.S. voters using “improperly gleaned” data from 87 million Facebook users to target them with personalized political ads during the

On Thursday, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway introduced a draft Farm Bill that runs counter to what farmers and eaters across the country need. Among other disappointments, the bill would eliminate the country's largest conservation program, allow concentrated animal feeding operations to claim limited conservation dollars, place no meaningful limitations on subsidy payments to large farms, and remove all mandatory funding for Energy Title programs.

In late March, Congress passed a significant spending bill that included US$380 million in state grants to improve election infrastructure. As the U.S. ramps up for the 2018 midterm elections, that may seem like a huge amount of money, but it’s really only a start at securing the country’s voting systems.

A mustachioed ironworker with a kickass climate plan could replace Paul Ryan. On Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced he will not be seeking reelection come November. That means his seat in southeastern Wisconsin is up for grabs — and a Democrat named Randy Bryce, whose formidable and bristly mustache earned him the nickname “IronStache,” is angling to get it.