The War at Home The TikTok Ban Is Security State Protectionism U.S. intelligence agencies and data giants aren't about to let someone who isn't them invade your privacy. PLUS: So much for those Niger bases!
The War at Home My Robotic Doppelganger Is The Grim Face of Journalism's Future! As journalism endures catastrophic financial collapse, I watch software seize my long-lost archives, erase my name—or attribute my work to a fake person. PLUS: Evan and I sign on Friday!
The War at Home The Anti-Palestinian Origins of The War on Terror A new report exposes the groundwork for the 9/11 era. Author Darryl Li talks to FOREVER WARS. PLUS: 101,000 Michiganders say Israel's assault must stop.
The War at Home 'This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal' U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire rather than "be complicit in genocide." His last words were a challenge we must find the courage to heed
The War at Home College Students Could Never Give Hamas As Much Money As Netanyahu Did Hey, Anti-Defamation League, I hear you're really concerned about who commits material support for terrorism! PLUS: A free screening of the groundbreaking documentary 'Israelism'!
Paid-members only The War at Home The Enduring Surveillance Act of 2023 Here comes the legislative vehicle to save the expiring NSA and FBI surveillance powers called Section 702. Its (predictable) offer to reformers is: nothing!
The War at Home The Antisemite Defense League To Elon Musk's rescue rides the ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt. When you conflate Anti-Zionism and antisemitism, it's a short step to saying only Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
The War at Home The Anti-Surveillance Coalition's Highest-Stakes Gamble They're leveraging the renewal of Section 702 for by far the most sweeping surveillance reform since 9/11. But won't 702 immediately be used against Palestinians and their allies?
The War at Home Islamophobia Kills. Protect Your Neighbors It was a matter of time before someone listened to the politicians and media figures dehumanizing Palestinians and took action. The victim was a six-year old boy
Newsletter St. Augustine's 9/11 Anniversary Lord, implored President Biden, let us "turn the page" on the War on Terror. Just not yet.
Newsletter Drones Over Brooklyn, RICO for Cop City Protesters As the Air Force pursues AI-powered drones for combat, the NYPD uses older models to spy on Caribbean Brooklyn. What starts as military tech doesn't stay as military tech. PLUS: Georgia files egregious charges against the anti-Cop City movement!
The War at Home Who Is And Isn't A Terrorist, January 6 Edition An Iraq combat veteran turned Proud Boy sentenced for seditious conspiracy applies the logic of 9/11 to 1/6.
The War at Home Rudy Giuliani Was A Creation of The New York Media This is for every New Yorker who in the 1990s watched our local press launder a racist authoritarian mayor into someone who'd save the city from… the people who live here. He always was who he is now
The War at Home Biden Goes All In On FBI/NSA Mass Surveillance The White House's final offer on surveillance reform: nothing. At least they stripped away the pretense that there's any way to fix Section 702. PLUS: Pee-Wee's last adventure
The War at Home Gillibrand And Biden Protect Troops The Military Simply Left To Be Sexually Assaulted The chain of command was never more important than the right of servicemembers not to be sexually abused. I can still hear the Pentagon saying they should never break the chain
The War at Home Mark Milley's Last Mistake This guy simply should not have been chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His final attempt to build the U.S. military of the future is gibberish.
The War at Home If 9/11 Was God's Vengeance for Homosexuality, What's Pat Robertson's Death During Pride Month? God was very, very far from the War on Terror. Those who wanted to make it an explicit religious war were not.
The War at Home When Protest Is 'Terrorism,' Material-Support Charges Are Next Wednesday's arrests of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund over Cop City could be a strike against protest infrastructure nationwide, warns Cat Brooks of the Anti-Police Terror Project.
The War at Home How To Deter FBI Surveillance Crime: Make Them Write It Down A recent spy-court document suggests that fear of getting caught stops the FBI from a lot of its "backdoor searches." How might a criminologist view this phenomenon?!
The War at Home Based Fiona Hill Here's a rare example of an eminence willing to take clear-eyed stock of most of the world's rejection of coalescing Cold Wars. PLUS: Elon Musk, antisemitism, capitalism and Magneto! AND: Get used to being a needle in U.S. intelligence's HAYSTAC!
The War at Home A Strangler in a Strange Land Daniel Penny killed Jordan Neely with his bare hands on video, but every institution in New York seems to be on Penny’s side. Why?
The War at Home The Killing of Jordan Neely In The Shadow of The Rent Guidelines Board Homelessness can happen to anyone in this economy, and anyone means you and me. Don't live in New York if you're afraid of New Yorkers.
The War at Home The Chud Era of National Security Leaks Expanding the Security State means relying on millions of people with secret clearances. As time passes, more and more of them are going to be inveterate posters. PLUS: Tech bros kill each other and blame the homeless!
The War at Home Will Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Close The Homan Square Black Site? The incoming mayor put closing Homan Square in his platform. Veteran organizers and abolitionists are optimistic he'll follow through. PLUS: Is Chinese diplomacy ending the Yemen war?