Trump Org: Case against developer alleges $1.76m in unreported compensation
Prosecutors this week charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer with systematically and illegally evading taxes for years, largely by failing to report compensation. The former president’s development firm and CFO Allen Weisselberg used a variety of schemes to cheat the government, according to an indictment that Manhattan...
UN’s biometric identity cards have brought little but pain to Rohingya refugees
Massive amounts of personal and biometric data are being gathered from hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. This should set off multiple alarm bells. As bystanders to likely crimes against humanity against the Rohingya, the humanitarian community has a particular responsibility to ensure their rights are not violated...
‘Psychedelic drugs and the hallucinations they induce can reveal how brains work’
“Everything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the beach, it would move. It would glisten and gleam and sparkle and be absolutely captivating,” says neuroscientist Anil Seth. “Somebody looking at me would see me staring at a stone...
How Trumpists weaponised ‘smokescreen trolling’ and waged ideological war
Some of the claims coming out of the Trump camp in recent weeks are laughable: that Joe Biden is the Hamburglar, that Democrats are conspiring to take away the Chick-fil-A sauces of “real” Americans, that socialism is making your burritos more expensive. Some are much more serious, but just as...
