From the Great Basin to Gaza: How Nevada’s Data Centers Power a Surveillance Pipeline...
Reno and Sparks are approving the data centers that feed AI warfare abroad, then buying the camera networks that bring it home.
Democrats hid their 2024 election autopsy. Its most glaring omission may be Gaza
After months of pressure from activists and party members, the Democratic National Committee released a previously withheld 192-page review of its 2024 defeat. The document sheds light on the party’s internal postmortem while raising new questions about transparency, accountability, and the complete absence of any discussion of Gaza.
Supreme Court preserves nationwide access to abortion pill mifepristone by mail
The justices' decision will block a previous ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which would require patients to obtain the medication only in-person from a physician.
How Russia and China learned to love their border
Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration.
Project 2025: How the far-right’s tax plan would hike middle-class taxes while slashing taxes...
Project 2025, a far-right agenda, proposes radical tax reforms that would disproportionately burden middle-income Americans while granting significant tax breaks to the wealthiest households and large corporations.
Democratic socialist topples 15-term Denver incumbent
Melat Kiros’ defeat of Rep. Diana DeGette marks another insurgent win for the party’s left wing and a warning to entrenched Democrats.
How Russia is upending the West’s attempt to control technology with intellectual property
Russia’s challenge to prevailing IP and copyright norms is central to its pursuit of technological sovereignty. Global fragmentation and Western divisions have given Moscow space to test the system’s limits without fully abandoning it.
Meeting with Trump signals Netanyahu’s Clout Is Waning
By Christian Emery, UCL (The Conversation) - A...
US-Iran war intensifies as Trump orders nightly strikes and American casualties mount
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told senators the campaign has already cost $37.5bn and asked for nearly $70bn more, even as oil tops $86 a barrel, allied Gulf states absorb Iranian reprisals, and no ceasefire holds.
ICE slashed detention facility inspections by 36% even as detentions and in-custody deaths surged
No facility on the agency’s own website showed evidence of more than one inspection last year, though the standards call for two, and the number of people held in detention rose 78% over the same period.









