Three cities have canceled federal-state Joint Terrorism Task Force partnerships for intelligence-gathering, which are being wielded to suppress dissent in the Trump era.
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Posted inCivil Rights in America
Intelligence Bureau Watchdog Warns of FBI Overreach in NYC
The lone civilian representative overseeing a sprawling partnership between the federal government and the NYPD says that officers are avoiding guidelines in place for 40 years.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Israel Is Making a Terrible Mistake
President Biden warned against Israeli forces occupying the Gaza Strip. Was it too late?
Posted inTAP
The Legacies of 9/11
Today on TAP: The long-term consequences of the U.S. response were far worse than the attacks themselves.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Government Does a Bad Job Assessing Toxic Exposures
The history of the captured federal agencies that reassure the public after chemical disasters should give East Palestine residents pause.
Posted inAmerica and the World
President Biden’s Lonely Foreign Policy
His changes are highly welcome, if not perfect. Yet they will be easy to reverse.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Attorneys Try to Gobble Up Billions From Starving Afghans
Famine grips the country, but ruthless lawyers are smelling profit.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Afghanistan Exemplifies the Depravity of U.S. Foreign Policy
A nation of exceptional bullies and hypocrites
Posted inAmerica and the World
How Biden Will Make Afghans Bleed
Joe Biden wants to unfreeze Afghanistan’s financial assets to hand them over to 9/11 families while Afghans themselves continue starving.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Guantanamo in 2021: Are We a Nation of Laws or a Nation of Fears?
A Senate hearing last week recontextualized the debate over the prison.
