Voices
Donald Trump's Holy Week Indictment Is an Anti-Christian Parable
Any MAGA minister who fails to draw the comparison with Jesus should have his Venmo account suspended.
Justice
Forensic Re-Creations of Police Abuse Lead to Landmark Legal Settlements
Expert reconstructions that tie together evidence provide a public record of abuse that’s harder for cops to deny.
Congressional Effort to End Assange Prosecution Underway
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is collecting signatures on a letter calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to end the extradition drive against WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.
Pastor Wins Civil Rights Suit Against Trump Administration Border Surveillance
A U.S. official admitted his call for Mexico to apprehend the pastor was “literally creative writing” and “without any basis.”
Anti-Palestinian Hate on Social Media Is Growing, Says a Facebook Partner
Social media users in Israel are increasingly using platforms like Facebook and Instagram to launch hate speech at Palestinians.
Voices
Texas Republicans Just Proposed a Bounty on Drag Shows
The latest legal attack pulls from a long legacy of state-sanctioned violence.
The War on Immigrants
Texas GOP Wants Citizens to Stop Migrants. Critics Say It’s a “Vigilante Death Squads Policy.”
Republican lawmakers are making a bid to challenge the federal government’s monopoly on immigration enforcement at the Supreme Court.
License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association
Flock Safety works with police to market scanners to hundreds of private community groups — which have no privacy safeguards.
The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes
In the summer of 2020, federal law enforcement launched a broad, and until now, secret strategy to infiltrate racial justice groups.
Top Cop Scapegoats Reform DA for Double Murder in Austin
Gov. Greg Abbott’s budget cuts led to the release of a man who went on to be accused in the killings.