Introduction On Sunday, July 26, Democratic Socialists of America national co-chair Megan Romer sat for a rapid true-or-false round with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream and affirmed, one after another, the most structurally ambitious planks in her organization’s new national program: abolishing the U.S. Senate, replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, phasing out...
July 28, 2026
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Cities Are Dropping Flock’s Cameras. Many Are Replacing Them With Axon’s.
Intro City councils from Syracuse to Denver have spent the past year voting down contracts with Flock Safety, the Atlanta company whose automated license plate readers became the most visible symbol of American street-level surveillance. Activists have called the votes a privacy victory. In a growing number of those cities, the poles did not stay empty. Crews returned within months...
No Terms of Service for Your Face: The Constitution Never Wrote Down a Right to Privacy, and Data Intelligence Found the Gap
Consumers understand the bargain they strike with Verizon, Google and Alexa. No equivalent agreement exists between a driver and a license plate camera, or between a shopper and a facial recognition system — and the Constitution never named the right that would fill the gap. Americans click “I agree” constantly. Verizon’s customer agreement, Google’s terms of service, the Alexa terms...
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A Socialist Program Meets Article V: What Would Actually Have to Happen
Introduction On Sunday, July 26, Democratic Socialists of America national co-chair Megan Romer sat for a rapid true-or-false round with...
Cities Are Dropping Flock’s Cameras. Many Are Replacing Them With Axon’s.
Intro City councils from Syracuse to Denver have spent the past year voting down contracts with Flock Safety, the Atlanta...
No Terms of Service for Your Face: The Constitution Never Wrote Down a Right to Privacy, and Data Intelligence Found the Gap
Consumers understand the bargain they strike with Verizon, Google and Alexa. No equivalent agreement exists between a driver and a...
While Antisemitism Grows, Churches Are Burning — and Barely Anyone Is Watching
There is a fire spreading through New York City’s houses of worship, and most of the country has not noticed....
From #21 to #3: How UnitedHealth Became the Biggest Winner of the Obamacare Era
When President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010, the promise was affordable coverage for millions...
New Jersey Counted 6,600 Noncitizen Voters — But Only the Ones Who Told the Truth
New Jersey handed the national election fight a gift this week, and it took the federal government barely a day...
The Hidden Tax on Every Ad You Run
Ask a small business owner what an ad costs and they’ll quote you a number: the monthly spend, maybe a...
Elections, Politics and Data Hypocrisy
Two of the loudest election fights in Washington right now look, at first glance, like separate stories. In one, House...