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To quote the great Steve Wozniak, “Actual Intelligence.” The kind we’re born with and can develop if we choose. It’s worth more now than ever before. Alas, it’s rarely…

Will Congress have an idea, or not?

How we confuse "social media" with "ad platforms"

It’s a good day to return to the question of the Supreme...

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The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations in the United States

Despite the fact that I've lived long enough to experience events like the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, Watergate, and various Middle Eastern conflagrations, I've never really thought of mys...

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As Democrats are blocking DHS funding in pursuit of reforms for ICE, Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick says changes at the agency are needed to restore trust.

The agency’s 31% year-over-year surge in AI use cases includes work with predictive models and surveillance technologies that sparked concern from privacy and technology safety advocates.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to inquiries about whether the men were federal immigration officers. As the sweeping imm...

How Trump is constructing the legal, procedural, and physical infrastructure to contest every election his party might lose from now until forever https://ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-2026-election-e...

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurviv...

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