When cruelty is mistaken for courage, vengeance for justice, and the taking of human life for a demonstration of strength, we are living under the politics of denial. This is what it looks like when a nation loses its way. This…
The era of small government is over. Anyone who tells you differently is selling you a lie. We are living under AI authoritarianism and a government operating without constitutional brakes. Case in point: Donald Trump promised to shrink the federal…
America, you got fooled. Again. Because our government has been making a shift from being a police state to being a prison state. For starters, the war on illegal immigration was never just about illegal immigration. If you fell for that,…
“National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly. Call something a matter of national security and the normal rules start disappearing: Courts defer. Congress retreats. Secrecy expands. Executive power grows. “National security” are the magic words…
What’s the point in celebrating the Constitution one day a year if we permit the government to violate it the other 364 days? September 17 marked the 237th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a document designed not…
For years, we have been warning that the U.S. Supreme Court would not save us from the tyranny of the American police state. That warning has not grown less urgent. It has simply become more complicated. The danger today is not…
It’s been a quarter-century since 9/11, and we are still living with the consequences of fear-driven government and Police State power grabs. What began as “temporary” measures for our security have hardened into a permanent architecture of control. They said…
