An Equifax and Facebook Lawyer Will Now Run the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection
In a rare party-line vote, the FTC appointed a corporate lawyer who has represented Uber, Equifax, Facebook, and a jailed payday lender to a top job.
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Justice Denied
Devonia Inman has spent 20 years behind bars for a crime he swears he didn’t commit. There are good reasons to believe him. Welcome to Murderville.
Before Snowden, an NSA Spy Tried to Incite Change From the Inside. He Called Himself the “Curmudgeon” of Signals Intelligence.
Rahe Clancy thought the NSA had become too corporate. So he wrote an agitated series of missives — for the agency.
The FBI’s Use of Informants Is Full of Problems, but What Happened in “Spygate” Isn’t One of Them
Trump has wrapped a conspiracy theory around a fundamental truth about the agency's misuse of informants.
Immoral Compass
Journalists Ryan Grim, Aura Bogado, Micah Lee, and activists Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy are this week’s guests on the Intercepted podcast.
From Caravans to Cages: Why Trump Bashes Migrants
The migrant “caravan” is a distraction from the real crisis at the border: the Trump administration’s theft and abuse of children.
The American Machine: Police Torture to Drone Assassinations
Civil rights lawyer Flint Taylor, the ACLU’s Hina Shamsi, and artist Eli Valley are this week’s guests.
Trump Insider Wanted to Sell Social Media Surveillance Tools to Abusive Governments, Leaked Documents Suggest
Elliot Broidy's firm Circinus prepared pitch books for repressive regimes like Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.
ISIS Has Not Vanished. It Is Fighting a Guerrilla War Against the Iraqi State.
Iraqi security forces lack the training, local knowledge, and community trust to defeat the militants.
Deconstructed Special: Is Donald Trump Inciting Far-Right Terror in the U.S.?
Contrary to Donald Trump’s warnings, terrorists weren’t coming from Mexico or Syria; they were here in America, and some of them attended his rallies.