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Twenty years ago, John Jonik released one of the best political cartoons ever regarding attempts to censor and control the internet. In it, a character dressed up as Uncle Sam is placing a gift box ...

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The Trump administration just lies and lies and lies. Those in charge assume they can just bluster their way past the system of checks and balances. For everything else, there's AI generated ...

Hoping to repay corporate America's feckless support of authoritarianism, the Trump administration is once again attempting to illegally ban all state and federal oversight of corporate power ...

Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Portland, Maine passed a facial recognition ban that said the city can fire employees who violate it, which might have been useful in Seattle where a police detect ...

In all of our conversations surrounding RFK Jr.'s appointment to lead HHS and the legitimization of his anti-vaxxer beliefs as a result, we have understandably been hyper-focused on measles.

Until very recently the only member of Congress excused from not having moved to impeach Trump was Rep. Grijalva, because until someone swore her in there was nothing she could officially do. But f ...

Imagine a leading American technology firm, the engine of thousands of jobs and critical innovation, besieged by a patent lawsuit. Typical enough, but this time there is a twist: The plaintiff is a ...

The abyss. The darkness. The meaningless void that life rebels against. It stares at us. Nietzsche warned about this moment--when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. When th ...

The BBC is now voluntarily suppressing criticism of Donald Trump before it airs--and the reason is obvious: Trump threatened to sue them into oblivion, and they blinked. Historian Rutger Bregman rev ...