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“How do you know when a Teamster is dead?” “The donut falls out of his hand.” That’s one of the oldest Teamster jokes — one of many I compiled years ago during the course of a lengthy investigation into union corruption and thuggery in Hollywood.

Egypt versus Iran.

There’s no meaningful relationship between whether a publication pays me and whether it’s worthwhile for me to write for them.’

Veronica Noone has joined the legion of people, from Olympic-level athletes to ordinary folks just hoping to lower their blood pressure, who are plugging into a data-driven revolution. And it goes way beyond Nike+. Using a flood of new tools and technologies, each of us now has the ability to easily collect granular information about […]

Former church executives say leader David Miscavige beat his staff

The Obama administration’s most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place. For anyone to see. On Vivek Kundra and Data.gov