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moderation

Trump’s FCC Pick Wants to Be the Speech Police. That’s Not His Job

Brendan Carr wrote the Project 2025 chapter on the Federal Communications Commission. Now Donald Trump has tapped him to run the agency.

Makena Kelly

FUBAR

Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron

StopGPT

The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI

Reece Rogers

Latest

Workarounds

Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers

Lily Hay Newman

Election 2024

What Lee Zeldin’s Nomination Means for the EPA

Lylla Younes

Hack Back

More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump’s Return Means for US Cybersecurity

Eric Geller

Work Ahead

Trump Won. What Will Happen to Electric Vehicles?

Aarian Marshall

Bots Gone Wild

A Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI

Eric Geller

too much power

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky

Zeyi Yang

Project 2025

Tucker Carlson Promotes the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 in Elon Musk Interview

Vittoria Elliott

That Sucks

Project 2025 Would Drastically Cut Support for Carbon Removal

Matt Reynolds

deepfake law

The US Needs Deepfake Porn Laws. These States Are Leading the Way

Vittoria Elliott

2024 Olympics

The Olympics' Hostile Architecture Is a Preview of What's to Come

Morgan Meaker

Let It Burn

Project 2025 Wants to Propel America Into Environmental Catastrophe

Zoya Teirstein

Environment

The New UK Government Wants Clean Energy, Sustainable Aviation Fuel, and Public Transport Reform

Matt Reynolds

Rollback

The Supreme Court Is Gutting Protections for Clean Water and Safe Air

Molly Taft

New Start (ups)

How Keir Starmer Can Fix the UK’s Tech Industry

Natasha Bernal and Isabel Fraser

Data Boom

Britain’s Brewing Battle Over Data Centers

Morgan Meaker and Isabel Fraser

Reruns

Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed

Dell Cameron

FDA’S BIG DAY

Supreme Court Upholds Access to Abortion Pill in Unanimous Vote

Kate Knibbs and Emily Mullin

Pay It Forward

NYC’s Congestion Pricing Should Have Been the Future

Aarian Marshall

Power Up

How Many Charging Stations Would We Need to Totally Replace Gas Stations?

Aarian Marshall

The Unknown

Secrecy Concerns Mount Over Spy Powers Targeting US Data Centers

Dell Cameron