Midterms 2026
Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People
The Illinois congressional candidate turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.
Justice
Prosecutor Floating Death Penalty for Nick Reiner Knows It’s an Empty Threat
LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman is playing politics by raising the specter of the death penalty for the murders of Rob and Michele Reiner.
The War on Immigrants
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
The War on Immigrants
ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group
BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.
Secretive Georgia Clemency Board Suspends Execution After Its Conflicts of Interest Are Exposed
Stacey Humphreys’s death sentence was rooted in juror misconduct. His fate may lie with people directly involved in his trial.
Chilling Dissent
Longtime Paid FBI Informant Was Instrumental in Terror Case Against “Turtle Island Liberation Front”
Kash Patel and others touted the FBI’s investigative work, but the few available details point to a more complicated picture.
Chilling Dissent
U.N. Experts Blast U.S. Universities for Human Rights Violations Against Gaza Protesters
The U.N. experts wrote blistering letters to five American universities about their crackdowns on Gaza protests.
Voices
NY Times’ Bret Stephens Blames Palestine Freedom Movement for Bondi Beach Shooting
Stephens parroted Benjamin Netanyahu’s scurrilous weaponization of antisemitism to justify any and all of Israel’s actions.
Out for Blood
Despite Declining Support for the Death Penalty, Executions Nearly Doubled in 2025, Report Says
Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions this year.
Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities
The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the high court.