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  Elissa was featured in a recent article for the New York Times. It talks about the recent phenomenon of "prediction markets" and political insiders profiting off non-public information. We've included the article below. Thank you for taking a few minutes to read up on this issue and what Elissa is doing about it. NYT: Trump Says He Dislikes Prediction Markets. His Family Invests in Them. When a U.S. soldier was indicted on Thursday on charges of using classified information to place prediction market bets, it seemed to confirm President Trump’s lament just hours before that “the whole world unfortunately has become somewhat of a casino.” “I was never much in favor of it,” Mr. Trump said from the Oval Office, when asked about concerns that federal employees might be leveraging insider information on the prediction markets. “I don’t like it conceptually. It is what it is. I’m not happy with any of that stuff.” Yet Mr. Trump and his family stand to profit from the very sa...

  What must we expect of journalism in this crisis? To tell America the unvarnished truth Robert Reich Sep 3 Biden’s core message Thursday night was clear. American democracy is under attack. But Friday’s media coverage of the speech was just more he-said/she-said reaction — as if the media were covering a typical political race instead of a contest between democracy and authoritarianism. The New York Times  quoted Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy as claiming Democrats are the ones “dismantling Americans’ democracy.” The  Times  failed to point out that McCarthy’s claim is inaccurate, and that McCarthy himself was one of 139 House Republicans who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election even after the attack on the Capitol. The same article quoted Ronna McDaniel , the chair of the Republican National Committee, as calling Biden “the divider in chief” and accusing him of exhibiting “disgust and hostility towards half the country.”...