Bershidsky: Ukraine scandal will prolong a real war
In the 1997 black comedy "Wag the Dog," an unscrupulous political consultant (played by Robert De Niro) invents a U.S. war with Albania to distract attention from a White House...
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Bershidsky: Details revealed about U.S. efforts to hack Russia’s power grid may be a message to Putin
A report in the New York Times that the U.S. Cyber Command has intensified secret efforts to hack the Russian power grid is less interesting for its content than because...
Guest Commentary: Traffic jams are a sign of income inequality
The Dutch-based navigation company TomTom NV has discovered in the course of research for its 2018 traffic congestion index that the German cities with the highest and fastest-growing apartment rents...
Bershidsky: Cambridge Analytica is a red herring. Facebook is the real problem.
Facebook is being hammered for allowing the data firm Cambridge Analytica to acquire 50 million user profiles in the U.S. But the outrage misses the target.
Bershidsky: No, Twitter — healthy conversation can’t be engineered
Facebook's self-regulatory contortions in the wake of fake news and trolling scandals have gone on, with little visible effect, for months.
Bershidsky: Putin wants modern weapons, not a modern Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin spent about as much time talking about Russia's new strategic weaponry as about all domestic policies put together.
Bershidsky: Mr. Trump, I’m Russian and I’m not laughing
"They are laughing their asses off in Moscow," President Donald Trump tweeted. Some Russians -- including the man who runs the indicted troll factory -- are indeed laughing, but I'm...
Bershidsky: Here’s how Amazon and Co. could fix health care
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan's plan to disrupt the health care system has the potential to show the U.S. government how it could be done.
Bershidsky: Journalism will prosper as bastion of trust over blogs, social media
Now that tech platforms are realizing they have no good replacement for quality journalism, it's time for them to start paying for it.
Bershidsky: Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” would have been impossible in Putin’s Russia
Reading Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" -- last weekend's most-talked-about literary sensation -- I came away with the distinct impression that Americans have it good. Here's a mental exercise: Try...