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Surveillance company Flock Safety announced several operational changes in response to a torrent of criticism and overwhelming public opposition to its mass government surveillance product.

Flock's threat to privacy stems from its operation of more than 120,000 automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) nationwide, which includes broad location ...Read more

When Truth Social, President Donald Trump's media mouthpiece, announced that it would be selling advance access to Trump's posts, I thought they were kidding. I mean, have they no shame? When the announcement met with a round of criticism and Democratic demands that the SEC investigate, I figured they'd back off.

Why do I keep underestimating...Read more

Why is socialism a growing force in American politics for the first time in over a century?

It's not happenstance. Socialism meets the historical moment.

The Socialist Party of America founded in 1901 reached its apex of organizational strength, membership, electoral success and national visibility just before World War I, during the 1912 ...Read more

I'm 69 years old and I have a Snoop Dogg T-shirt, a black one.

On the front of the shirt is Snoop's picture in black and white. He has a mustache and goatee and braids in his hair. His eyes are half-closed. Maybe he was sleepy when they took the picture.

Even though it was the day before her birthday, my wife Deborah bought it for me at a ...Read more

You couldn't find a wackier candidate than Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist vying to become the governor of Wisconsin. She wanted to defund police and abolish ICE, topping it all off with a call to end Thanksgiving. "Saturday Night Live" couldn't have made her up.

Hong lost the Democratic primary but left behind some sobering thoughts...Read more

Last month, President Donald Trump left the summit in Ankara, Turkey in a catering truck. He walked onto the old Air Force One in view of all the cameras, then snuck onto a catering truck to be whisked to a military jet, which flew him to England, where he snuck back onto Air Force One. And no one was the wiser until this week, when the ...Read more

You may wonder why President Donald Trump is doing everything he can, day by day, to destroy faith in democracy in little and large ways, on the job day and night. I have an answer that will presently be revealed.

It involves a modest proposal.

Here in the capital, our hearts are hurting over his huge new White House ballroom construction (...Read more

It's no secret that voters are increasingly disgusted by today's extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers. But less known is the fact that extremist GOP lawmakers are even more disgusted by you voters!

They're so disgusted that a top legislative priority of Republican leaders in the White House, Congress and state legislatures is to rig ...Read more

In April, ICE held one mother, who was five months pregnant, with her husband and four children, including her 11-month-old baby, in a cell with no sunlight and little access to running water for nearly a month. The mother lost consciousness twice from the heat before anyone took her seriously.

"My children were confused and scared about why ...Read more

"Don't it always seem to go," Joni Mitchell wrote decades ago, "that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?" Last week's Senate passage of legislation authorizing new sanctions against Vladimir Putin's Russia was much-ballyhooed, but much ado about little: The most meaningful sanctions, tariffs against countries purchasing Russian ...Read more

Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan keeps calling himself a capitalist. And the Democratic Socialists of America keep backing him to the eyeballs.

Why? Because the DSA understands that El-Sayed has to say that to win over even Democrats in a moderate state like Michigan. They firmly expect that once elected, he would do as ...Read more

Anthony Fauci is an American hero. He spent his entire life in public service. He took on impossible challenges -- and impossible people. He saved millions of lives around the world.

And what does he get for it? A comfortable, well-earned retirement to spend as he pleases with family, friends and colleagues?

No, he is consigned to lawyers' ...Read more

The victory of progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primary for one of Michigan's seats in the United States Senate was a dramatic upset over a coalition of establishment corporatists, the right-wing media infrastructure and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the vicious Israel lobby that influences American elections without ...Read more

While visiting my mom, my son asked, "Why do I have to make my bed at Grandma's house?"

I smoothed the quilt over the mattress and answered without thinking, "Because Grandma likes it neat and she deserves a nice space."

My response surprised me. What did being tidy have to do with worth?

I somehow managed to frame household chores as a ...Read more

They took them from us, the employee handbook, it and a bunch of stupid laws about harassment and hostile workplaces.

They took the words, all the good words, all the words that let you know who the hell was in charge, which was white people, and in charge of white people were white men.

The women got to 'em, or the Blacks, or a buncha guys ...Read more