Category: Expert Analysis

Editor’s note: This article is the fourth in a series focusing on the best encrypted apps and services available. Content has been provided by an anonymous security and privacy professional. Readers are encouraged to verify this information on their own. Each of the apps and services mentioned in this article serve different but overlapping purposes. […]

Editor’s note: This article is the third in a series focusing on the best encrypted apps and services available. Content has been provided by an anonymous security and privacy professional. Readers are encouraged to verify this information on their own. ProtonMail ProtonMail was founded by CERN and MIT scientists after the Snowden leak. Their goal was […]

Here in the United States, we have a short memory and even shorter foresight when it comes to international politics. We can’t seem to find it in ourselves to view the world through anything other than our own partisan lenses, qualifying our nation’s behavior, as well as the responses it garners, from the rest of […]

Washington, D.C., United States—The U.S. economy continues to grow, and wages follow closely. In August, wages grew 2.9 percent, the fastest rate of increase since the economy started to grow its way out of the Great Recession of 2009.  An increase in new jobs has kept unemployment rate at 3.9 percent. The recent wage numbers […]

Editor’s note: This article is the second in a series focusing on the best encrypted apps and services available. Content has been provided by an anonymous security and privacy professional. Readers are encouraged to confirm this information on their own. What Should You Look for in an Encrypted Communication App/Service? It should be independently audited […]

It might be the greatest achievement in human history, and yet so few have ever heard it. Global extreme poverty (defined by the United Nations as living on less than $1.90 a day), has been nearly eradicated. As recently as 1990, 32 percent of the world’s population subsisted on less than $1.90 a day. In […]

As the world fully enters the 21st century, the social and political landscape of America has undergone a profound shift. Republican lawmakers have praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for exposing what can be at best described as a lack of ethics in the Democratic party, and at worst, outright corruption. The Republican president-elect has hailed […]

This op-ed was written by NEWSREP guest author, Alex Benson. Part 1 can be read here. Spending $3.2 trillion a year on a new entitlement program will not save money, even if we zero out all private spending on healthcare.  The claim that spending such a massive sum amounts to savings stems from a misinterpretation […]

In July 2001, Captain Ron Casillas received orders informing him that he was being reassigned to the retired reserves as he was now eligible for retirement after completing 20 years of service. This came as a bit of a surprise to Ron as he had about five more years to go until he hit his […]

Governments have always more or less held to political satirist P.J. O’Rourke’s dictum that “It’s better to spend like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money.” Recently, however, some truly outlandish proposals have become mainstream in both political parties. These policies make one wonder whether today’s politicians misinterpreted O’Rourke’s humor as […]

“If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.” Rudyard Kipling Critical thinking. You read it in almost every course syllabus. You hear it on almost every serious show and podcast. But what is critical thinking? Etymologically, to criticize means to judge. So, critical thinking […]

You can read part III here Dedication for this write goes to NEWSREP brother Ryan B (01a) “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world… she walks into mine” (Humphry Bogart in Casa Blanca) There’s a truck stop here in Albuquerque called the T&A Truck Stop — as the Lord […]