Since the start of the second Trump administration, there's been open debate about whether the United States is descending into a modern high-tech surveillance state. But is there any truth to that?

When people complain about Big Tech, they tend to mean companies like Meta, Google, and X—entities providing free tools and platforms that we can choose whether to use. Much less attention is directed ...

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In 2013, a former intelligence contractor copied classified files exposing a global surveillance system spying on ordinary ...

On Sunday night, a gunman opened fire at a concert in Las Vegas near the Mandalay Bay Casino, where an estimated 22,000 people had gathered for a country music show. Early estimates have put the death ...

Palantir Technologies became a new target for MAGA supporters when the New York Times (NYT) claimed the Trump administration intended to use the company to collect data on Americans. While Palantir ...

As far as signifiers of fascist takeovers go, it’s hard to get more ham-fisted than a joint paramilitary-military occupation of the nation’s capital in the precise way that government officials have ...

A screaming 16-year-old girl in Worcester, Massachusetts struggles in the arms of two police officers. It is May 9, 2025 and her frantic, unintelligible screams pierce the morning air, as more ...