Let me walk you through something.If you wanted to build a system to exploit young women and make it basically invisible, you’d design something that looked exactly like the New York modeling industry of the 1990s. You’d recruit teenagers from countries where they don’t speak English. You’d fly…

In 1933, a circle of Wall Street financiers allegedly hatched a plan to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt. They didn’t want to kill him. They wanted to keep him in his chair, smiling for photographs, while a puppet official — controlled by the men who paid for the operation — ran the country.This was…

We have a habit in this country of looking at the monsters of history through a telescope, convinced they are a world away. When we see the heavy boots of the state — the raids, the cages, the Department of Homeland Security’s shadow falling over the vulnerable — we cry that it looks like the…

The relationship between the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and Palantir did not begin in 2025.  It began in 2011, when Palantir embedded itself within Homeland Security Investigations, supplying DHS with tools to track flights, scan driver’s license data, and map human movement through…