Politics

I remember the first time I learned about voter registration purges. It wasn't in a courtroom or a policy brief; it was at a kitchen table with a neighbor who'd received notice that her registration was cancelled because mail to her address was returned. She'd voted in every local election for years. The notice didn't explain how a habitual voter suddenly ceased to be one. That moment stayed with me: the idea that a single administrative glitch...

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I still remember the day a senior postdoc at my university walked into my office with a stack of grant rejection emails and a look that mixed exhaustion and anger. He’d spent years building a lab, training students, and designing experiments that could have advanced everything from cancer diagnostics to greener battery chemistry. One unexpected cut in federal funding away from university research could have undone much of that work overnight....

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When I first started digging into public budgets and corporate filings, I expected to find the usual incentives: tax credits for clean energy, subsidies for manufacturing, grants to spur job creation. What surprised me was how often those same tools quietly funnel capital into companies building surveillance technologies — facial recognition, location tracking, biometric databases — with minimal public debate.These incentives don’t always...

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