Documents obtained by Foreign Policy and the nonprofit crisis journalism website Coda Story show that the Trump administration knowingly lied about poverty statistics in their rebuttal to a UN Human Rights Council report on poverty in America earlier this year.

Some recent updates on Facebook, the for-profit panopticon and advertising company: First, BuzzFeed reported last night that Facebook has begun ranking news organizations by trustworthiness and “promotes or suppresses” content based on those rankings. Second, Axios reported this morning that Facebook will bring in…

Say what you will about Ivanka Trump, but she knows a thing or two about #branding. After all, her job in the White House is essentially to throw a trendy Instagram filter on her father’s toxic agenda. And, disturbingly, she’s getting better at it.

Congratulations are in order for Jim DeMint: Saying that his move signals a “new mission” for the Tea Party, the former senator has gone from presiding over one of the most well-funded institutions in the dark-money ecosystem to advising one of the most radical. DeMint, the Republican who retired from the Senate in…

Last week, The Politico broke the news that Jim DeMint, the president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, was likely to be removed from his post in a bloodless coup. On Tuesday, the foundation’s board of directors made it official: DeMint is out, to be replaced on an interim basis by Heritage…