Tiger Woods Suffers Severe Injuries In A Single-Person Car Crash
Golfing superstar Tiger Woods on Tuesday morning suffered severe injuries in a rollover car crash in Southern California, police reports show. The incident took place on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said. Woods was the only occupant of the vehicle when his car crashed at […]
The SolarWinds hack was all but inevitable – why national cyber defense is a ‘wicked’ problem and what can be done about it
Terry Thompson, Johns Hopkins University Takeaways: · There are no easy solutions to shoring up U.S. national cyber defenses. · Software supply chains are vulnerable to hackers. · Many U.S. companies outsource software development because of a talent shortage, and some of that outsourcing goes to companies in Eastern Europe that are vulnerable to Russian […]
The US government’s $44 million vaccine rollout website was a predictable mess – here’s how to fix the broken process behind it
Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been a nightmare for many Americans as they struggle through multi-step registration and appointment systems. The federal government had envisioned states using one national vaccine scheduling system, and it offered a contractor US$44 million to develop it. But that system turned out […]
Trump wasn’t the first president to try to politicize the civil service – which remains at risk of returning to Jackson’s ‘spoils system’
Barry M. Mitnick, University of Pittsburgh The federal government’s core civilian workforce has long been known for its professionalism. About 2.1 million nonpartisan career officials provide essential public services in such diverse areas as agriculture, national parks, defense, homeland security, environmental protection and veterans’ affairs. To get the vast majority of these “competitive service” jobs […]
Biden faces the world: 5 foreign policy experts explain US priorities – and problems – after Trump
Muqtedar Khan, University of Delaware; Garret Martin, American University School of International Service; Jennifer M. Piscopo, Occidental College; Joyce Mao, Middlebury, and Julius A. Amin, University of Dayton Editor’s note: President Joe Biden inherits from Donald Trump a United States that was simultaneously isolated from the rest of the world and openly hostile toward parts […]
Don’t blame Fox News for the attack on the Capitol
Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Carnegie Mellon University; Mark Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University In the days following the attack on the Capitol, The New York Times, in its print edition, ran an op-ed titled “Yes, You Should Blame Fox For Whipping Up Radicals.” The Washington Post ran an article with the headline […]
‘The US is falling apart’: How Russian media is portraying the US Capitol siege
Lena Surzhko Harned, Penn State The storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which was Christmas Eve for Eastern Orthodox Christians, was a perfect holiday gift for Russian politicians and state-controlled Russian media. While President Vladimir Putin has remained silent so far, reaction from political leaders was instantaneous, and the topic has dominated Russian […]
Biden to dismiss Trump’s lift for travel ban
As Trump nears the end of this term, one of his final orders were to lift travel bands from Europe and Brazil. However, Biden stands to dismiss the White House decree. His spokeswoman said that now is not the time to be easing travel measures. Joe Biden will take office at midday on Wednesday, but […]
100,000 pieces of digital evidence of Capitol attack in the hands of the FBI
After a violent mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol last Wednesday, the FBI took to Twitter, requesting for any information that could help identify individuals who participated in the riot. As of Tuesday, it was reported that the FBI has received over 100,000 pieces of digital evidence as an answer to that request. […]
California Disneyland to House Vaccination Efforts Amid Rising Number of COVID-19 Cases
Authorities announced on Monday their plans of making California’s Disneyland as one of the state’s vaccination sites starting this week as more and more are inoculated with the coronavirus vaccine. With the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the state, the “happiest place on earth” is scheduled to bring some much needed medical hope for […]