For eighty years, an American military base was a promise: power that could not be touched. Now the Pentagon is quietly asking how to make its buildings disappear. "Every major military installation i…
A federal agency is spending taxpayer money on AI to keep its officers unfindable, while its own employees worry the same tool will be turned on them. "If things go sideways they may just throw all yo…
The police already had permission to watch from the sky. What they didn't have was a lock on the video. "There's a certain trust given to the police to use these things correctly. When you're watching…
America runs a secret war at sea it refuses to admit exists, and the people it has already killed are the last to get an answer. "They treated us like animals." — Survivor of the March 26 boat strike,…
The Pentagon told families their sons and daughters were fine. The soldiers knew better. "Almost 90 percent of the 400 injured American service members have sustained only minor injuries and have sinc…
The FBI is calling arrested protesters at their homes and asking them to spy on their friends. "They were asking me to inform." — John Mark Rozendaal, a cellist who played at Delaney Hall ICE protests…
A Pentagon official admitted in a classified briefing that some of the people the U.S. military killed in its first boat strike may have been victims of human trafficking. "Why would 11 people be on b…
The government promised negotiations with striking detainees. It sent batons instead. "My nephew can't see right now because he was hit on the head with a baton." — A detainee's aunt, speaking to The …
Detainees at an ICE facility in Newark went on hunger strike to protest horrific conditions, then were told negotiations would begin. Instead, guards hit them with batons and pepper spray. "My nephew …