Joshua Scheer Pope Leo XIV is warning that artificial intelligence, if left in the hands of profit-hungry corporations and unaccountable tech oligarchs, could unleash a “social calamity” by replacing human work. And now even the markets are beginning to price in the fear. Prediction traders on Kalshi see a 60% chance that U.S. unemployment crosses […]
Does photographing ICE agents make you a domestic terrorist in Donald Trump’s America? That’s the question being asked by a growing chorus of activists and legal observers who fear they’ve been placed on a government watchlist for exercising their First Amendment rights. Months after the Department of Homeland Security ended its aggressive immigration sweeps in […]
On Monday, a three-judge federal court panel with two Trump appointees restored an Alabama congressional map with two majority-Black districts for the 2026 midterm elections, finding that another map recently green lit by the Supreme Court intentionally discriminated against Black voters. The same panel had already concluded last year following a full trial that Alabama […]