Inside the intersection of Sudan's humanitarian catastrophe, global mineral supply chains, and the systems that sustain them. Part 1 of a six-part investigation.
Every June, the logos go rainbow. Every other month, queer creators are demonetized, trans users are harassed off platforms, and LGBTQ+ content is quietly buried. This is not a contradiction — it is a business model.
As federal social spending shrinks and war budgets grow, residents in at least 10 states are organizing ballot campaigns and legislative pushes to tax billionaire wealth for schools, hospitals, and food programs. They're routing around Congress because Congress won't act.
A senior Pentagon official confirmed that artificial intelligence systems selected the first 1,000 targets struck in Iran, marking the first time the U.S. military has publicly acknowledged AI-driven target selection at this scale.
A new Doctors Without Borders report documents sexual violence as the 'defining feature' of Sudan's civil war, with survivors detailing systematic assault as a weapon of territorial control.
An F-15E Strike Eagle shot down over Iran is the first U.S. aircraft lost to enemy fire in the current conflict — and direct evidence that the administration's public case for this war was built on a false premise about Iranian military capability.
Young male voters were the surprise engine of Trump's 2024 victory. Eighteen months later, the Iran war and $4 gas are doing what Democrats couldn't: making them reconsider.
Trump's threat to bomb Iran's desalination plants isn't a gray area — it's explicitly prohibited under the Geneva Conventions. The administration is treating a war crime as a pressure tactic, and the paper trail showing this was always the plan goes back nearly a decade.
The White House declared it had dismantled a $400 billion clean energy loan program. But the Inflation Reduction Act was designed to survive political attacks — and billions in funding are still flowing to renewable projects.
ICE has doubled its use of ankle monitors on asylum seekers in the past year, forcing electronic shackles on people who attended every check-in and followed every rule.
The U.S. embassy in Mexico deployed AI-generated corridos urging migrants to 'self-deport,' revealing how artificial intelligence enables new forms of state propaganda through cultural manipulation.
The Supreme Court could eliminate mail ballot grace periods used by 3.2 million voters in 2020, forcing states to reject ballots delayed by postal service failures beyond voters' control.
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk demands U.S. investigation into a military strike that killed 168 people, mostly children, at an Iranian school, calling the attack 'viscerally horrifying.'
The White House is mixing real Iran war footage with video game and action movie clips in official social media videos — gamifying human suffering for engagement.
Democracy scholars find the US system has stopped declining but remains stuck at diminished levels established under Trump — the crisis has become the new normal.
The Trump DOJ wants to exempt federal prosecutors from state bar discipline, creating a class of government lawyers who operate outside the ethical rules that constrain every other attorney in America.