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…

We never shared a shift report in the early hours of the morning. If we passed each other in a hallway or stood in line for coffee in wrinkled, mismatched scrubs, I wouldn’t have known who you were.But I knew you.I knew you by the ache in your feet after twelve hours on the floor. I knew you by the…

For years, I assumed the hate I received was personal. I thought it was an attempt to intimidate me simply because I am a woman. It’s the internet, it’s a cesspool, we know this. But then I started to really look at it. I tracked the repetition in my inbox. I analyzed the recurring attacks on '…