News in Brief The U.S. Attack on Syria Threatens to Drag the World Into Conflict The United States fired dozens of Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian military airbase Friday morning in retaliation for… Massoud Hayoun
News in Brief Twitter Is Suing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Prevent the Unmasking of a ‘Rogue’ Account Twitter is suing Customs and Border Protection to oppose an agency summons demanding that Twitter turn over personal… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Brazil Is Finally Cracking Down on Corruption Growing up in Brazil in the early 1990s, I remember hearing people say things like, “Brazil could be… Chayenne Polimédio
News in Brief Devin Nunes Under Investigation by House Ethics Committee House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes announced on Thursday he is temporarily stepping down as head of the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What Exactly Will Trump and Xi Discuss at Mar-a-Lago? Hopes aren’t very high for groundbreaking diplomacy to transpire at the meeting between President Donald Trump and his… Massoud Hayoun
News in Brief Jeff Sessions Is Throwing the Brakes on Criminal Justice Reform This summer marks nearly three years not only since the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New… Jared Keller
News in Brief Cosas del Estado: How Immigration Raids Lead to an Avoidance of Care Since Donald Trump took office on January 20th, 2017, communities throughout the United States have braced themselves for… William D. Lopez
Economics Over 730 Companies Join the List of Vendors Interested in Trump’s Border Wall Customs and Border Protection will now sift through those vendors’ proposals. Morgan Baskin
News in Brief There’s a New Health-Care Proposal in Town Yesterday, reports emerged that the White House and the Freedom Caucus have re-started negotiations on Obamacare repeal-and-replace after… Dwyer Gunn
News in Brief Trump Can Technically Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants When President Donald Trump placed his businesses in a trust upon entering the White House, he put his… Derek Kravitz & Al Shaw