Americans spent about 50 days working and paying taxes last year just to feed the war machine — with 23 days going to pay Pentagon contractors and their millionaire CEOs, Lindsay Koshgarian and Hanna Homestead report.
Trump’s ICE agents have resurrected the Ace of Spades death cards inserted into the mouths of dead Vietnamese by U.S. troops in Vietnam more than 50 years ago, writes Nick Turse.
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. History isn’t whispering: it’s shouting, says Thom Hartmann.
There have been times when the U.S. Constitution protected Americans. Functionally today, those days are gone. We have seen in Minneapolis why the U.S. needs to have a Fourth Amendment, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Marjorie Cohn reports that twelve days before the execution of Alex Pretti by border patrol agents, plaintiffs asked the federal court to stop the deployment by injunction.
The revelation of the identities of the federal agents who shot Alex Pretti revealed a culture of law enforcement impunity amidst calls for accountability, reports Jon Queally.
Stephanie Martin repeats the warnings of philosopher Hannah Arendt in the wake of the many lies told by authorities about ICE shootings in Minneapolis.
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in over two decades, writes Julia Norman. Detention facilities lack climate control, ventilation, running water, sanitation, medical services.
Regime change in current conditions requires maximum bloodshed, writes Daniel McAdams. It doesn’t matter whose blood; it can all be blamed on “the regime.”
Marjorie Cohn sizes up the legal considerations surrounding Jonathan Ross’ fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.