The Receipt You Didn't Sign: FISA, Data Brokers, and AI in the Week Before the Deadline
April 25, 2026
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Congress has five days to decide whether the government needs a warrant to buy what it cannot legally seize, and whether the answer scales with artificial intelligence.
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The Autocracy Ratchet: Scoring America's Democratic Erosion Quarter by Quarter
April 24, 2026
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Five independent measurement institutions (V-Dem, Freedom House, the Economist Intelligence Unit, CIVICUS, and leading comparative politics scholars) have reached an unusual consensus: American democracy is eroding faster than any comparable historical case. Here is what the data actually shows, event by event.
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The Blacklist Machine: How Russia Built a Surveillance State One Moral Panic at a Time
April 07, 2026
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A decade-by-decade investigation into how a child protection law became the technical scaffold for one of the world's most sophisticated apparatuses of political control.
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Protect the Children: The Global Surveillance Playbook
April 06, 2026
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From Russia to Turkey to the UK, governments worldwide use child safety laws to build censorship and surveillance infrastructure. The pattern is consistent and documented.
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