Scotland Yard arrested four top current and former Sun journalists and a cop. The Guardian’s Nick Davies gives us the context and says it’s a major development: And technicians have retrieved an enormous reservoir of material from News International’s central computer servers, including one particularly vast collection that may yet prove to be the stick
ProPublica and NPR on Freddie Mac’s Conflicts
Why haven’t Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae been much more aggressive about refinancing the mortgages they hold? That’s a $50 billion question. ProPublica and NPR have a $3.4 billion possible answer. Jesse Eisinger and Chris Arnold report that Freddie Mac has placed a huge bet that homeowners in its loans won’t be able to refinance
Updating the Privacy Protection Act for the Digital Era
Cloud computing is all the rage. Traditionally, people had to store, manage and process data on a personal computer or local server. Cloud computing moves those functions to a remote server accessible from multiple locations. In turn, the cloud provider assumes the job of maintaining and backing up the data, and often it spreads the
Medicare Versus Obamacare
In the last few days, three mainstream news outlets elevated “Medicare: The Political Story” into the headlines. It was good to see that The New York Times, PBS’s Need To Know, and Reuters, all of which reach large audiences, have realized Medicare may be the most important health story of the campaign. (Yes, perhaps more
Houses of Straw
Though we’re thick in the primary and caucus season, the testing of the political winds actually began months ago, with several “straw polls.” Thought to come from the farm practice of tossing a few shreds of straw into the air to test which way the wind was blowing to determine if it would be good
