Quick Facts

Body cameras will not deter violence committed by ICE agents unless policies clearly dictate their use.

The Colbert incident highlights the growing restrictions on editorial independence during the second Trump administration—either imposed by government threat or corporate fear.

Many importers have already paid out billions in tariffs since Trump started imposing them. Whether they get their money back is just one open question.

Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest at Sandringham suggests that the antiquated principle sovereign immunity may no longer hold true today.

The new bill says Florida's emergency fund can only be used for natural disasters, not immigration detention.

The fear driving much public commentary about the danger to midterm elections is not merely that election officials will be investigated or that evidence would be seized.

The FDA’s move risks fueling further mistrust in vaccines, aligning with a wider push from Trump's federal health officials to question long-settled science.

In addition to strict documentary requirements for registration and voting, the bill would force states to conduct frequent purges of their voter rolls and share information with DHS.

We now have a system where, because of the whims of the president, the Department of Justice has become utterly weaponized against his perceived enemies.

A “domestic terrorism” label that comes before the facts does not just risk being wrong in one case. It teaches the public, case by case, to treat the term as propaganda.

Although the surge has brought ICE and CBP agents closer to a traditional police role, they are pursuing a militarized warrior model of policing.

ICE and CBP have some, though not all, of the characteristics of a paramilitary in the second sense of the term, referring to forces as repressive political agents.

When officials reshape the facts, the damage isn’t only to the record. The damage is to the basic belief that a democratic public can know what its government has done.

In 2026, filming still matters. The challenge is ensuring the act of witnessing oppression and violence doesn’t quietly become a new form of exposure.

It is one thing to fire ambassadors who have impeded the president’s agenda in some way; it is quite another to clear them out preemptively as Trump has done.

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of the military in civilian matters but, over time, Congress has passed at least 26 exemptions to the act that allow the president to send troops into states.