News in Brief These Four Charts Show the Sorry State of Cybersecurity Cyber attacks are ramping up, and we're not ready for it. Nick Hagar
News in Brief What Libraries Can Teach Us in Our Fight for Digital Rights As civil society worries about the threat of targeted surveillance, the library provides a critical blueprint for how to tackle the problem. Seeta Peña Gangadharan
News in Brief Democrats Urge White House to Release Any Recordings of Trump-Comey Talks Ranking officials of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees have asked the White House Counsel to release the tapes, if they exist. Morgan Baskin
News in Brief The Academy’s First Black President Is Stepping Down From Its Governing Board Cheryl Boone Isaacs spearheaded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' diversity initiative. Katie Kilkenny
News in Brief Amid a Resurgence of Hepatitis C in America, State Laws Prevent Citizens From Getting Clean Needles and Treatment Hepatitis C kills more Americans every year than measles or AIDS. Many states' laws aren't helping to mitigate the disease, a new analysis finds. Francie Diep
News in Brief Widespread Cyber Attacks Hit England and Spain The attacks in the two countries appear to be the same type of malware. Nick Hagar
News in Brief Praise the Lord, Google the Porn States that are home to large numbers of evangelicals generate an above-average number of Internet searches for sexually explicit material. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief Viewfinder: Separatists Celebrating in an Unrecognized State People carry flags and balloons during a rally in Donetsk on May 11th, 2017, to mark the third anniversary of a referendum on the declaration of the Donetsk People's Republic. Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief New Orleans Removes the Second of Four Confederate Monuments The statue of Jefferson Davis came down early Thursday morning. Nick Hagar
News in Brief Trump Chases Non-Existent Voter Fraud With New Commission Research shows minuscule levels of voter fraud in recent elections. Nick Hagar