Hegseth’s War Department Slashed Civilian Protection Staff, Brought in AI Assessments
Self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has gutted its premier center devoted to preventing civilian casualties in war zones, cutting...
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Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger
The Pentagon’s top watchdog says cuts to civilian harm mitigation and response efforts have been so severe under War Secretary...
We Need to Kick Prediction Market Betting Out of Journalism While We Still Can
A Polymarket pop-up media exhibit shows data relating to potential political candidates popularity on March 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Photo:...
OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI claims it has accomplished what Anthropic couldn’t: securing a Pentagon contract that won’t cross professed red lines against dragnet...
Rambling Man: Trump’s State of the Union
“The deliberate cruelty that they found humor in stood out to me,” says Jordan Uhl of Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening...
Unnamed Pentagon Officials Ridicule Hegseth’s Plan to Stop War Department Leaks
Three current Pentagon officials decried a new War Department policy designed to restrict press freedom. Under new rules, the Department of...
These 59 Companies Fought the Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill in 2016. In 2025, They’re Silent.
In the weeks after North Carolina’s Republican-led state legislature passed its infamous 2016 “bathroom bill” — banning transgender people from...
