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  • NewsEthan Wolff-Mann

    How Elizabeth Warren used a new Congressional power to punish Wells Fargo

    Not regulators like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose very existence was questioned yet again when it didn’t find out about the fraud until long after it began. Although Warren did not herself use legislation or official congressional power to get Wells Fargo to claw back $60 million from executives, her public shaming and the Facebook post that followed fanned the public opinion fires so vigorously that the bank’s board had to do something to quell shareholders and an angry publi

  • NewsYahoo Finance

    Here are the disturbing reasons ISIS marketing is so effective

    While many experts say the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is on the decline, you wouldn’t know it from the organization’s public narrative. The ISIS propaganda strategy compels people to action: ISIS has persuaded an estimated 30,000 people from more than 85 countries to travel to hostile war zones in Iraq and Syria and inspired other supporters to commit acts of violence on ISIS’ behalf in their home countries. The caliphate’s narrative helped fuel expansion beyond Iraq and Syria to re