Understanding Today’s Top Stories
The big one: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stepped down in light of his affair with an alleged Chinese intelligence agent, raising critical questions about U.S. national security and what Trump knew.
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The incident reveals how the U.S. handles foreign intelligence threats when they intersect with powerful commercial and political interests. Retired senior U.S. intelligence official Brian O’Neill explains.
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Jen calls it:
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Plus, we asked Senator Mark Warner about tech policy in light of the NVIDIA revelations in person at a Democracy Defenders post-election conference. Watch here.
Prevalent toxic masculinity and dismissal of women as second-class citizens under the Trump regime is another running theme of today’s stories (and let’s face it, the past 10 years).
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Now that Democrats are taking power, every aspect of women’s health belongs in and at the top of their point-by-point plans, writes Jennifer Weiss-Wolf.
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The latest season of Netflix’s Love Is Blind put a spotlight on dysfunctional men and the women who want to love them. Meredith Blake helps evaluate this hit reality show using standards we should apply in reality: Are we really okay with delighting in the humiliation of women?
And more media for the politics-obsessed, like us:
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