The War at Home What Could Be More Radicalizing Than An NYPD-Columbia Education? Cop-Mayor Eric Adams ordered the NYPD to arrest student protesters in the name of stopping their "radicalization." The lesson he taught will last lifetimes
The War at Home Warrantless Spying on Pro-Palestine Protesters Is Easier Than Ever The NSA and CIA's warrantless searches of U.S. metadata, made possible by the just-renewed Section 702, rose 129 percent last year, U.S. intelligence just disclosed.
The War at Home Now The Students Are "Terrorists" Politicians and administrators are playing the 9/11 Era hits against students protesting a genocide—and want so badly to kill them
The War at Home The Silicon Valley/Venture Capital Pentagon Here's an exclusive first look at new research from the Costs of War Project about a tectonic shift in the political economy of American warfare. Move fast and break things
The War at Home My New York Times Op-Ed on Gaza and the "Rules-Based International Order" The Times asked me to write about the U.N. Security Council's DOA ceasefire resolution. There wasn't a way to do so without writing about the U.S.' global order
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!
Newsletter 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.
Newsletter 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?
Newsletter 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?!
