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War Yes, the Midterms Were About the Iran War New polling shows that voters were animated by opposition to the war—and want more...
Election 2026 Langley Donors Shift Republican in 2026 The community home to the CIA and many military contractors no longer favors...
Election 2026 Republicans Fumble Their 2024 Gains With Arabs in Michigan Democrats alienated Arab Americans in the last election....
War Powers How Democrats Can Stop the Iran War Now Congress has some options for constraining the president’s war-making powers....
Surveillance Leaked Files Reveal ICE Liaisons to U.S. Military Commands With Access to Surveillance Tech ICE has people attached to...
Fourth Amendment CBP Really Doesn't Want To Reveal What It Does to Americans' Phones A judge ruled that the border agency has to...
Foreign Policy New Book Says Jared Kushner Funneled Money to Middle East Mercenaries. Kushner Denies It. Princes and Thieves makes...
War on Terror America Is Spending Billions To Fight the War on Terror in Africa. The Terrorists Are Winning. Terrorism fatalities...
Invasion of Privacy Border Cops Seize Nurse's Phone Filled With Psychiatric Patient Information CBP allegedly told the nurse that...
Border Crossings Homeland Security Lied About Child Porn To Search Activist's Phone The feds are charging Samuel Tunick for...
Free Speech The European Union Wants To Punish People for Their Speech—Without Even a Trial Authorities are claiming draconian...
Human rights Inside the Trump Administration's War on The Hague In the name of national sovereignty, the U.S. government is trying...
Privacy Treasury Backs Down on Biden-Era Cryptocurrency Surveillance Proposal It’s a small victory for financial privacy against...
Artificial Intelligence The Pentagon Is Eating Silicon Valley An influx of military spending has been moving tech companies away...
Drones How Drones Went From Tools of the Powerful to Weapons of the Masses Two very different sorts of drone warfare ...
Borders Border Agents Nabbed Their Phones. These Two Floridians Are Fighting Back. A former assistant state attorney and an...
Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Admits To Watchlisting Americans Based on 'Potential Inaccuracies' The feds’...
Foreign Policy Democrats Are Quietly Clashing Over U.S. Involvement in Saudi Arabia's War in Yemen The Trump administration has...
Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Agents Are Harassing American Voters of Foreign Origin A campaign against...
Artificial Intelligence The 'AI Safety' Movement Is Making AI Less Safe The fear of superintelligence is driving decisions that...
Middle East Biden's Team Wanted War in the Middle East Without Owning It Crossing the Red Line peels back the curtain on the...
Artificial Intelligence AI Is Already Killing People—and Governments Are To Blame Militaries are leaning on AI software for...
FOIA How To Get Your Government File The Freedom of Information Act gives Americans the right to see what records the government...
Surveillance The Feds Are Spying on Your Bank Account While the Treasury forces money changers to report on suspected immigrants,...
War The Iraq War Cheerleaders Were Wrong. They're Wrong About Iran Too. Hawkish pundits predicted both wars would be swift and...
Boycotts Congress Is Trying (Again) To Ban Boycotting Israel The bipartisan bill, which passed the House, takes aim at university...
Iran Trump Is Back To Seeking Regime Change in Iran With the conflict over Hormuz dragging on, the administration is betting on a...
Artificial Intelligence The CIA Is Making AI-Generated Reports for Local Police The CIA has been using artificial intelligence to...
Surveillance This YouTuber Got Kicked Out of the Flock Convention. So He Ran His Own Surveillance. Benn Jordan wants the snoopers...
Borders Border Cops Detained Me for Hours Without Explanation. They Won't Tell Me Why. CBP claims dictatorial powers over Americans...
ICE ICE Handed Over Specific Iranians at the Islamic Republic's Request Newly released FOIA files reveal a back channel between...
Foreign Policy The Trump Administration Promised a Pivot From the Middle East to East Asia. It's Doing the Opposite. The U.S....
Government secrecy Trump Promised Transparency. His Administration Keeps Finding New Ways to Hide Records. "The most transparent...
Oil The Trump Administration's Hormuz Oil Numbers Don't Add Up Energy Secretary Chris Wright claims that more oil left the Middle...
Middle East Trump Teased a Deal To Open Hormuz 'Tomorrow.' It's Been a Week. The war with Iran continues to hold up oil flows from...
Venezuela Trump Says He Took Venezuela's Oil. Here's What Actually Happened. Trump put Venezuelan revenues in a secretive bank...
Foreign Policy The American Fingerprints on the Genocide in Sudan Reuters and the U.N. accuse an operator with extensive U.S....
Foreign Policy Trump Backs Down From Yet Another Empty Threat to Iran We’re locked in a cycle: The president threatens to resume...
Search and Seizure Border Agents Can Lie to Search Your Phone, but Wiping Your Own Data Could Land You in Prison The government is...
Foreign Policy Waltz: Interceptor Shortage Is Biden's Fault, Fake News, and Illegal To Discuss The Trump administration official...
Foreign Policy The Iran War Is Back, Sort Of The U.S.-Iranian peace memorandum has broken down, and violence is slowly ramping back...
Surveillance Iran Used Ad Tracking To Hunt American Soldiers: Report The U.S. government has used private ad data to get around the...
Foreign Aid Thomas Massie Sparks a Democratic Civil War Over Israel His amendment to cut all military aid to Israel split the...
Israel The Push for an Embargo on Israel Is Vague and Confused Are critics talking about a government-to-government weapons...
Lindsey Graham Last of the Neocon 'Three Amigos': Lindsey Graham Dies Unexpectedly The one thing Graham was consistent about was...
Surveillance Before the NSA Honored Historian David Kahn, the FBI Investigated Him Newly declassified files reveal that J. Edgar...
Sports Trump's World Cup Intervention Shows His Sore Loser Philosophy In sports as in foreign policy, he treats cheating as a...
Sanctions In Europe, Just Reposting Russian Propaganda Can Land a Blogger in Jail Don't assume this couldn't happen in America too....
America 250 On America's 250th Birthday, the United States Arms the World's Tyrannies On a Fourth of July, John Quincy Adams warned...
Energy & Environment I Survived Europe's Heat Wave Without AC—No Thanks to Regulation European countries are stubbornly...