Brad Reed for Common Dreams Monday report in The New York Times revealed what it described as the “alarm” felt by some White House lawyers at proposals made earlier this…
“It’s being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."
The Insurrection Act empowers the president to deploy the US military domestically to suppress civil unrest.
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to…
“Trump explicitly threatened to use the state to target anyone he and MAGA scapegoat for Kirk’s murder,” said New Republic writer Greg Sargeant.
One environmental attorney said that the EPA proposal “prioritizes chemical industry profits and utility companies’ bottom line over the health of children and families across the country.”
Michael Tracey and Zaid Jilani discuss Jilani's recent spat with Vice President JD Vance on X over due process.
The loss of civil liberties is almost always incremental. On a flight home from Greece, the author recently ran into an increasingly familiar and menacing problem.
The Speaker voted against warrants, permitting the national security state to continue unfettered spying on civilians.
By American Civil Liberties Union WASHINGTON — The House Energy and Commerce Committee announced it would be voting on a bill this Thursday that would effectively ban TikTok in the…
The people of good will and the tools of democratic transformation are available or attainable but mostly latent in our existing civic institutions.
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide." — John Adams in a letter to John…
By Glenn Greenwald / Rumble Following the recent protests against police in France, the French government has taken steps to implement increasingly repressive measures in the forms of mass surveillance…
US citizen Gonzalo Lira faces a long prison term in Ukraine for criticizing the country’s government. Shunned by the US government, his father is fighting to stop the “slow death…
The detention of Ernest Moret raises urgent questions about British authorities’ targeting public intellectuals at the request of other nations.
