Reporting Highlights Inflated Claims: HSI deployed its tech platform to find noncitizens on voter rolls, despite warnings from agency insiders that it would lead to an “ungodly” number of false positives. Privacy Concerns: DOJ leaders ignored internal concerns that transferring voter lists to HSI for criminal investigation might not be legal. Scant Results: Despite intense…
Politics / August 13, 2026 The president’s backing failed to secure a primary win in Minnesota for Mike Lindell. And he’s not the only one. Ad Policy Gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell makes his case for the GOP nomination in Duluth, Minnesota, in May 2026. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii / The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images) In…
Rancid food, sewage flooding into the halls, and sailors reportedly throwing themselves overboard to escape the fetid conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has languished for over 250 days in the Middle Eastern seas without a return to port. Democrats are now calling for an investigation into the growing mental health and morality crisis…
Debates on the left are typically framed as a division between moderates and progressives, with the two sides wrestling over how best to form a governing coalition. Yet, in many ways, this divide obscures a much bigger fault line: the class divide. The fact is, many of the Democratic party’s ideological factions consist almost exclusively…
Reporting Highlights Ready, Fire, Aim: In a rushed process exempted from normal rules, the Army hired General Dynamics, which brought on a Turkish subcontractor with little vetting, to make artillery shells. Money for Nothing: Despite being paid $533 million, General Dynamics did not produce a single usable shell at its new factory — and has…
Politics / August 12, 2026 Many of those trying to bring the DNC chair down just want the party to continue to act as an ATM machine for their consultancies. Ad Policy Ken Martin speaks at the 2026 California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco, February 21, 2026. (Jeff Chiu / AP) We write…
The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s personal musings, private communications, and messaging history by Senate Republicans has proved fertile ground to revive right-wing hysteria and antipathy toward the man who became the face of the nation’s Covid-19 response. On Monday, the New York Post published an article claiming that Fauci “privately warned of miscarriage risk…
Paul Krugman remains one of the left’s most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders because Trump’s ultimate goal is cruelty rather than public safety. Krugman contends that Trump’s policies have made crime worse than it otherwise would have been. But if Trump’s…
I file a lot of Freedom of Information Act requests. I’ve been requesting staff lists from both Trump administrations, and I have tracked thousands of federal political appointees in order to publish financial disclosures in searchable databases. Much of that data was sourced from the Office of Personnel Management, which maintains a trove of information…
