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This may be the most important rule today. It’s a secret
Trump’s Kafkaesque artificial intelligence black box
 • Ben Raderstorf
Trump’s master database of “citizens”
A massive privacy scandal just waiting to happen
 • Ben Raderstorf
Toying with disaster (aid)
Trump uses anti-terrorism funds to attack elections
 • Ben Raderstorf
Congress must curtail the FCC’s speech regulation authority
A practical legislative agenda to check an out-of-control agency
 • Rachel Goodman
Blanche-22
The only man loyal enough for the job is too obviously loyal to pull it off
 • Ben Raderstorf
$266,000 every single hour
One big idea to combat the corruption
 • Ben Raderstorf
Autocratic capture comes for AI
Investigating the ways Trump’s secret AI power grab could go wrong
 • Deana El-Mallawany and Justin Florence
What a year in D.C. has cost the National Guard
Trump’s deployment is quietly unraveling the Guard’s core mission
 • Michael Angeloni and Beau Tremitiere
The two-branch doom loop
Eight ways to check the Supreme Court's role in the authoritarian project
 • Justin Florence and Erica Newland
The administration’s propaganda machine is aimed at the 2026 election
The federal government is now a superspreader of election lies
 • Katie Schwartzmann and Rachel Goodman
The defining question of the 250th
Will one man get to keep us from having a say — or can we insist on real representation?
 • Justin Florence and Alison Hirsh
Muzzling America’s workforce
How to comment right now on the proposed NDA for civil servants
 • Jules Torti, Beth Littrell, and Ellinor Heywood
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