Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduces bill to regulate AI industry with public charters, aiming to protect public interest and prevent harmful practices.

Vote No on Iowa Amendment 1

How Finland's prison system leans into rehabilitation, not punishment

Can the populist Maine Democratic Senate nominee take back his own campaign?

By Alvin Sheng and Owen Lubozynski Saint Paul, MN – Dozens gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday, September 22 to unveil th...

They’re trying to cram all the opposition into the last 40 before the election.

The places Americans once loved for being cheap are a lesson in what buyouts do

States giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least,

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

What happens when the richest citizens of a nation decide to betray it and destroy it? In this special book launch episode of The Nerd Reich Podcast, guest host Jean Guerrero (The New York Times contr...

Donald Trump once called crypto a "scam." Now he's a crypto billionaire—and the crypto bro in chief. What's going on here? Tech researcher Molly White (creator of Citation Needed/Tech Influence Watch...

It’s Existential Crises Week!

Here's what Idahoans need to know about Prop 1 – Idaho's abortion ballot initiative. Prop 1 will be on the 2026 General Election ballot.

Grassley, constitutional amendment, IA-02, and more

This is the week that someone pulled the fire alarm on AI. It began with industry employee Jacob Coxon issuing a dire warning: "I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote on Twitter/X. "I spent the la...

Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker warn the wealthy that their fate may require them to embrace “market humanism.”

Here at the RJ, we are eager to support the work of our colleagues, so a few of us will be writing about the newly released documentary short For Our […]

The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.

LEGAL WIN: SCOTUS just blocked Trump’s attempts to restrict mail-in voting. This decision affirms what we’ve known: Americans can vote in whatever way is most convenient for them. Once again, the pe...

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.