The world watched in horror Monday as a massive fire tore through Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, destroying large portions of the seven-century-old landmark. News channels went into special-coverage mode, newspapers around the world published impressive photos, and millions of dollars in donations for reconstruction began pouring in. A tragedy of this scale clearly merited the […]
Samuel Breslow
Samuel Breslow is an editorial intern at The American Prospect.
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Stripping the Value from Food Labels
New regulations allow the food industry to hide important information from consumers, and it could get worse.
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Inventor of the World Wide Web Speaks Out About Online Misinformation
No, we’re not talking about Al Gore. Thirty years ago, on March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, then a researcher at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, sent a proposal to his boss for a protocol to access information on the internet. That protocol would become the World Wide Web, the near-universally adopted standard by which […]