As America turns 250, a rare 1790 exchange between Washington and Bishop Carroll takes on new relevance
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, historians are looking back at the founding-era documents that helped...
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30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech
Supporters of the Prairieland defendants display pamphlets and artwork after their sentencing outside a Fort Worth, Texas, courthouse on June...
Cops Warn CEO Bodyguards That Luigi Mangione Fever Could Spark Class War
A law enforcement intelligence hub in New Jersey fretted that the growing class divide in the U.S. could drive a...
The Intercept Sues to Uncover Secretive Government Anti-Protester Database
The Intercept is challenging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s refusal to release public documents relating to an unlawful database...
Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest...
Undercover Cops Infiltrated Delaney Hall ICE Protest to Spy and Make Arrest
Detectives with the Newark Police Division of the city’s Department of Public Safety went undercover to infiltrate protests outside U.S....
Trump’s Spaghetti-Against-the-Wall Indictment Against ICE Protesters — and How to Fight It
Federal agents pepper-spray a protester holding a sign during an enforcement operation outside the Whipple Building ICE facility in Minneapolis...
Scott Pelley Shows How Legacy Media Got It Wrong — Before Bari Weiss Made It Worse
Journalist Scott Pelley speaks onstage at the International Rescue Committee’s annual Freedom Award benefit on Nov. 7, 2012, in New...
Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors?
Anthropic’s high-profile spat with the Pentagon gave it a killer marketing advantage, burnishing its public image as a principled AI...
Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
Americans speaking out against artificial intelligence data centers on social media are falling under police surveillance, a confidential law enforcement...
A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito found themselves in the minority on Thursday, when the court ruled that...
How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk
the Trump administration last week unveiled its “2026 Counterterrorism Strategy,” a 16-page collection of threats, grievances, hyperbole, and lies. The...
Miami Beach Official Hired Billboard Truck to Call Pro-Palestine Activists “Jew Hater,” Lawsuit Alleges
A city official in Miami Beach, Florida paid thousands of dollars to hire billboard trucks with text attacking specific members...
FBI Quietly Closed a Probe Into Mahmoud Khalil While He Was in ICE Detention
A recently released FBI file shines new light on the days immediately leading up to the arrest of then-Columbia University...
A Trump U.S. Attorney’s Professional Misconduct Must Be Kept “Private and Confidential”
An ethics watchdog found that a Trump administration-appointed former U.S. attorney committed professional misconduct in response to allegations that included...
