Courts

The President Is Selling Your Constitution Back to You at $100,000 a Month

The lawsuit against Truth Social's $100,000-per-month subscription for early access to Trump posts is legally sound, but the deeper pathology is that the entire information ecosystem of the presidency has…

Courts

Trump Is Selling Your Right to Know. The Intercept Just Sued to Stop Him.

The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation sued President Donald Trump and his staff Wednesday, challenging a Trump-owned media company's plan to monetize the president's social media posts.

Crime

The Lakers Sale Is Not a Scandal. It Is the System Working Exactly as Designed.

Josh Kushner and Bob Iger are purchasing the Los Angeles Lakers for a record-breaking $12.5 billion, a transaction that exposes the structural mechanics of elite capital reproduction in professional sports.

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…

Crime

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…

Congress

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…