The DOJ has accused California's two women's prisons of failing to protect incarcerated women from staff sexual abuse — a direct challenge to the state's carefully constructed identity as a national model for criminal justice reform.
A $70 million AI industry super PAC is reshaping Democratic primaries with the same logic as AIPAC: fund the candidates least likely to regulate you, and make accountability expensive. Greg Casar wants his party to name what's happening before it's too late.
Marco Rubio has launched a campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court, framing it as a sovereignty issue. The court's active investigations implicate U.S. conduct in Afghanistan and Gaza. The timing is not coincidental.
New Jersey has subpoenaed GEO Group, the private prison corporation operating Delaney Hall, after multiple detainee deaths and accounts of beatings in retaliation for hunger strikes. The state civil rights investigation is now the only functioning oversight of a facility the federal government has r
A bill framed around 'organized retail crime' would install ICE as the lead federal agency on commercial theft — giving the immigration enforcement agency a new statutory mandate to operate in communities where immigrant workers are concentrated.
The DNC's autopsy author found that Gaza policy cost Harris measurable votes in Michigan — then kept that chapter out of the official report. The omission tells you exactly who the document was written to protect.
ICE will deploy body cameras by the end of next month — under a policy that lets the agency's own director decide whether the public ever sees the footage. The cameras are real. The accountability is not.
The White House finalized an AI safety testing framework — then decided only the companies being tested would see the results. That's not oversight. It's a liability shield built with industry input.
Since 2020, more than two dozen bills to strengthen congressional stock trading rules have died without a vote. The reason is structural, not procedural: the people who would pay the cost of reform are the ones voting on it.
AIPAC has spent $30.6 million to defeat progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan — the most it has ever directed at a single race. The shell PAC infrastructure behind that number is designed to make sure voters never see where the money came from.
Dozens of police officers have been accused of using Flock Safety's 80,000-camera surveillance network to track ex-partners and harass civilians. The company marketed the system as a crime-fighting tool — and left the keys entirely in police hands.
UEFA and CONCACAF have moved into open, public questioning of FIFA's leadership after Infantino's private equity plan collapsed — the most significant challenge to football's autocratic governance model in years.
Francesca Hong is running for Wisconsin governor on free childcare — and finding it lands across ideological lines. The deeper story is why a policy this popular took a pandemic to become politically viable, and who benefited from keeping it off the table.
OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed an employee petition calling for the government to 'deliberately pace' frontier AI development. Neither company has slowed down. The endorsement is not a brake — it's a buffer.
Willie Nelson's stand against an AI data center in Abbott, Texas, is drawing national attention — but the real story is how Big Tech uses state tax incentives to turn water-stressed rural communities into infrastructure sacrifice zones.
Marc Rosenblum built the most transparent immigration enforcement data system in DHS history. It went dark in January 2025 — the same month arrests surged past 10,000 in five days. His resignation is not the story. The information blackout is.