Courts

Kansas Police Raided a Newsroom for Looking Up a Public Record. Now They’re Paying Dearly.

Three years after police raided a Kansas newspaper for looking up a public driving record, the Marion County sheriff and former police chief face a federal lawsuit that has already…

POTUS

The FCC Was Built to Be Boring. Brendan Carr Made It a Weapon

Brendan Carr has weaponized the Federal Communications Commission by treating the 'public interest' standard as a tool to discipline media outlets that displease the president, a strategy so brazen that…

Money

Treasury Kills Beneficial Ownership Reporting

On Tuesday, the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network finalized a rule permanently exempting U.S. companies and U.S. persons from reporting beneficial ownership information under the Corporate Transparency Act. FinCEN…

Congress

Fusion Centers Now Treat Anti-Surveillance Activism as a National Security Threat

Dozens of state fusion centers have circulated intelligence bulletins directing local police to monitor anti-Flock advocacy as part of a directive to protect national security, folding legitimate civic activity into…

Congress

Ken Paxton’s Adultery Is the Symptom, Not the Diagnosis

When a woman on a tele-townhall asked Ken Paxton why he cheated on his wife, the Texas attorney general did what any well-conditioned political organism does when confronted with an…

POTUS

Trump’s Diamond Ring Is Not a Scandal. It Is the System Working as Designed.

Senators have labeled a 321-diamond ring from Belgium a 'cartoonish bribe,' but the article argues this is not a scandal—it is the system working as designed.

Congress

Sahra Wagenknecht Wants to Hand Eastern Germany to the Far Right. Call It What It Is.

Sahra Wagenknecht has a plan for Saxony-Anhalt. It is not a plan to govern. It is a plan to abstain, deliberately, in the third round of voting for minister-president, and…

Congress

Abdul El-Sayed’s 2009 Sharia Declaration and the Erosion of Secular Governance

A 24-Year-Old Bought a Condo and Told Us Exactly Who He Is. We Weren't Listening.

POTUS

The Party Machine Crushed Francesca Hong, and Tony Evers Holds the Knife

The party establishment could not stomach Francesca Hong's grassroots movement, so they recruited a dropout, deployed a governor's endorsement, and manufactured an electability argument to steal the nomination by a…

POTUS

Air Force One as Bait: Trump’s Decoy Flight Left His Own Press Corps in the Crosshairs

The president of the United States crawled into a catering truck. That is not a metaphor. On July 8, Donald Trump boarded the legacy Air Force One in Turkey, then…