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Reading Time: 6 minutes Tim Cook, the C.E.O. of Apple, said earlier this year that he would not let his nephew join social networks. Bill Gates banned cellphones until his children were teenagers, and Melinda Gates wrote that she wished they had waited even longer. Steve Jobs would not let his young children near iPads.

But in the last year, a fleet of high-profile Silicon Valley defectors have been sounding alarms in increasingly dire terms about what these gadgets do to the human brain. Suddenly rank-and-file Silicon Valley workers are obsessed. No-tech homes are cropping up across the region. Nannies are being asked to sign no-phone contracts.

Reading Time: < 1 minute The United States has a long history of involvement and intervention in Central America – and that’s at the root of today’s border crisis.

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Reading Time: < 1 minute President Trump erroneously suggested raking the forest floors could’ve prevented the lethal California wildfires, and made other bizarre, inexplicable comments.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Turns out everyone in President Obama’s family does an impression of him, usually at the dinner table. But the leader of the free world would rather gossip.

Reading Time: < 1 minute White nationalist groups have become a force to be reckoned with in the U.S. We wanted to know who’s financially funding their hate – and there’s more money in it than you realize.

Reading Time: 2 minutes After unimaginable tragedy struck, Chris Hurst knew he was being called to something greater. His story isn’t just about an election — it’s about the people, and the proof that change is coming. Watch Virginia 12th – full documentary premieres right here, 10/30 at 5pm ET. » Get informed. Get inspired. 

Following a traumatic personal loss that made national headlines, local TV news anchor Chris Hurst quit journalism to run for political office. In the first wave of elections following a polarizing US presidential race, Hurst worked to rally support from a divided community to serve as delegate for Virginia’s 12th House District.

Reading Time: 3 minutes As it so often does, power throws a protective cape around the shoulders of the man, and he dictates the spin by denigrating the less powerful woman.”Monica Lewinsky

“If you want to know what power looks like, watch a man safely, even smugly, do interviews for decades, without ever worrying whether he will be asked the questions he doesn’t want to answer,” Lewinsky wrote of Clinton.