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An Ungrateful Public Underappreciates Data Centers
Their few defenders often misunderstand their benefits.
Border Cops Detained Me for Hours Without Explanation. They Won't Tell Me Why.
CBP claims dictatorial powers over Americans coming home. A big part of that is hiding information.
Planned New Battleships Come With a High Price Tag and an Uncertain Future
Large warships could prove to be expensive drone sponges without a clear mission.
America Is Building a Surveillance State Like China's
"If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging and sharing your movements without a warrant," warns the ACLU.
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Colonizing the Moon
Plus: Postpartum psychosis, captain deportation, lady lawyers, and more...
Review: A Novel Capturing the Cruelty of Mass Incarceration
The Hill resembles author Harriet Clark's own experience.
Jason Arday's Downfall, Lindsay Clancy Case, and the Surveillance State
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi take on press restrictions, the war on drugs, Flock cameras, data centers, dating, punk rock, and why war is still bad, actually.
Bad Reasons and Worse Reasons to Hate Data Centers
It's not existential dread about the internet.
Trump Is Taking Credit for D.C.'s Crime Drop. Here's What the Data Say.
Crime in D.C. had already fallen 29 percent before the National Guard showed up, yet the Pentagon plans to keep at least 2,500 troops in the city through 2029.
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Jason Arday's Downfall, Lindsay Clancy Case, and the Surveillance State
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi take on press restrictions, the war on drugs, Flock cameras, data centers, dating, punk rock, and why war is still bad, actually.
$40 Trillion and Parents' Night Out
Plus: ICE chillin', Moderna-Merck melanoma advances, and more...
Texas Requires the Ten Commandments Be Posted in Every Classroom. SCOTUS May Decide If That's Constitutional.
A major separation-of-church-and-state case lands at the Supreme Court.
ICE Handed Over Specific Iranians at the Islamic Republic's Request
Newly released FOIA files reveal a back channel between ICE's office in Israel, the Qatari government, and the Islamic Republic.
Breakthrough Personalized mRNA Vaccines Are Highly Effective Against Melanoma Skin Cancers
The vaccine could be available as soon as 2027.
Border Agents Searched His Phone 5 Times Without a Warrant. He's Asking the Supreme Court To Put a Stop to It.
How many warrantless cellphone searches does it take to change border policy?
Does Gun Control Make Us Safer?
Statistician Aaron Brown and professor Robert Spitzer debate the efficacy of gun control.
Can America Survive Its Political Divide?
Kurt Andersen discusses the politicization of everyday life, generational conflict, and whether markets have failed younger Americans.
Universal Healthcare Sounds Great. Here's What's Happening in Countries That Have It.
With calls for “free healthcare” growing louder in America, countries with universal systems offer a warning: long waits, rationed care, and unmet medical needs.
DSA Goes for Florida
Plus: Fire Island, data center NIMBYism, cost-of-living discourse, and more...
Trump's Dictator Envy Is Once Again on Display in Tiff with South Korea
The president openly admires world leaders who exercise absolute power.
ICE Admits It Investigated a Critic Based on Constitutionally Protected Speech
The agency’s attempt to intimidate David Streever is at the center of a First Amendment case.
Ibram X. Kendi Is Wrong About Jason Arday
Are the media responsible for the demise of a famous black professor at the University of Cambridge?
San Francisco's 'Historic Laundromat' Project Finally Begins Construction
Activists were able to block an apartment project in the city's Mission District by raising an increasingly ridiculous set of objections.
The Trump Administration Promised a Pivot From the Middle East to East Asia. It's Doing the Opposite.
The U.S. military is downsizing exercises in South Korea and pulling its last aircraft carrier out of the Pacific.
Appeals Court Upholds Right To Film Police—but Grants Immunity to Cops Who Arrested a Connecticut Videographer
The 2nd Circuit is the latest federal circuit court to find a First Amendment right to record the police.
Disney Sues FCC for 'Retaliatory' Investigation of ABC
"Government censorship is deeply un-American," the lawsuit states, before listing numerous times the government has tried to censor it.
October 2026
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The American Prison Experiment: A 250-Year History of Good Intentions and Bad Results
A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform
