Everything is bigger in Texas—including state police contracts for surveillance tech. In June, the Texas Department of Public ...

Francesca D'Annunzio is a Roy W. Howard investigative reporting fellow at the Texas Observer.

What he’s really doing is trying to foment fear among Americans, right? Foment fear of change, of black people, of the other ...

The Reckoning Project works to record, collect, and conserve witness testimonies of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine.

The Presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump this week was fact-checked in a departure from format, ...

Judy Estrin has been thinking about digital connectivity since the early days of Silicon Valley. As a junior researcher at Stanford in the 1970s she worked on what became the Internet. She built tech ...

When tech titans run into trouble with governments, they make impassioned claims about being defenders of free-speech and ...

Headlines around the world have described Pavel Durov as Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk but also the Robin Hood of the internet. These descriptions struggle to tell us anything of note because ...