• TRUTH DECAYEmpowering Users to Discern Fact from Fiction in the Age of AI

    By Emma Foehringer Merchant

    A new project will investigate interventions that enable individuals to effectively harness AI while building the literacy needed to avoid scams and other forms of abuse.

  • ICE’S DANGEROUS TACTICSWe Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

    By Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk

    We found over 40 cases of agents using chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. We showed former police and immigration officials videos of incidents. They said agents are out of control. One said it’s “the kind of action which should get you fired.” There is a federal ban on chokeholds and similar tactics. But there is no sign of punishment for officers who’ve used them.

  • ARGUMENT: DANGEROUS TACTICS, DANGEROUS SILENCEDOJ’s Dangerous Silence in the Face of Federal Immigration Agents’ Violent Tactics

    The killing in Minneapolis is but the latest in a series of incidents involving federal immigration agents’ use of apparent excessive force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and federal criminal law. Samantha Trepel writes that DOJ has remained disturbingly silent through months of these tactics. “This silence is a dangerous abdication of DOJ’s authority and responsibility.” Unfortunately, DOJ’s current abdication of responsibility “puts communities at needless risk and undermines the rule of law itself.”

  • IMMIGRATIONHow a Manhattan Institute Comparison of Immigrant Incarceration Rates Is Rhetorically Misleading

    By Alex Nowrasteh

    I compared incarceration rates between Somali immigrants, native-born Americans, all legal immigrants, and all illegal immigrants in the 18–54 age range. The Somali adult (18-54) immigrant incarceration rate in the US in 2023 was slightly below that of native-born Americans, according to American Community Survey.

  • ICE’S DANGEROUS TACTICSICE Killing of Driver in Minneapolis Involved Tactics Many Police Departments Warn Against − but Not ICE Itself

    By Ben Jones

    Debates over deadly force are often contentious, but for the most part there is consensus on one point: Policing should reflect a commitment to valuing human life and prioritizing its protection. One expression of that commitment is the prohibition on shooting at moving vehicles – but ICE’s policy on shooting at moving vehicles lacks a clear instruction for officers to get out of the way of moving vehicles where feasible. It’s an omission at odds with generally recognized best practices in policing.

  • ICE’S DANGEROUS TACTICSHow Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?

    By Jennifer Mascia, The Trace

    The Trace has identified 16 incidents in which immigration agents opened fire and another 15 incidents in which agents held someone at gunpoint since the crackdown began. At least three people have been shot observing or documenting immigration raids, and five people have been shot while driving away from traffic stops or evading an enforcement action.

  • SECURITY GUARDSThe Overlooked Psychology of Security Guards

    By Pierre Alcantara

    When people talk about the psychology of security guards, there is an uncomfortable truth that many would rather not discuss: many security guards develop an inferiority complex. This is not the result of personal weakness or an inherent flaw. It stems from the uncertainty the job creates. Guards constantly navigate uncertainty about their authority, their value, their place within the company, and even their standing in society.

  • EXTREMISMThe “Sacred” Pledge That Will Power the Relaunch of Far-Right Militia Oath Keepers

    By Alexander Lowie

    Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, announced in November 2025 that he will relaunch the group after it disbanded following his prison sentence in 2023. Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes committed during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, but President Trump commuted his sentence to time served.

  • TERRORISMTen Years Later: The Legacy of the Paris Attacks on Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks in the West

    By Alexandre Rodde

    A decade ago, the terrorist attacks in Paris illustrated the risks and challenges posed by complex coordinated terrorist attacks in a Western capital. These marauding attacks, striking multiple scenes in quick succession, were different from the bombing of public transport in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005. Western law enforcement response has evolved in order better to deal with such attacks, but the constantly evolving modus operandi used by terrorists requires a strong and constant anticipation effort by law enforcement.

  • TERRORISMAfghan Terrorism Is a Small Threat in the United States

    By Alex Nowrasteh

    It is still not clear whether Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who murdered a West Virginia National Guard member in Washington, D.C., two weeks ago, was a terrorist – but assuming he is a terrorist, it would mean that since 1975, Lakanwal is the only Afghan terrorist to have murdered somebody on U.S. soil in an attack. In other words, the annual chance of being murdered in an Afghan terrorist attack on U.S. soil is about 1 in 14.2 billion per year. The annual chance of being murdered in a normal homicide is about 1 in 14,000 per year, approximately one million times greater.

  • COUNTER-DRONE TECHCapturing Rogue Drones

    A new system is capable of repelling and capturing unauthorized drones. The defensive system’s own drones are equipped with an extendable net which snags unruly drones.

  • MASS SHOOTINGMass Killings Hit a 20-year Low, Northeastern Data Shows — but Public Perception Hasn’t Caught Up

    By Tanner Stening

    As 2025 winds to a close, new data show a surprising trend: this year is on track to record the fewest mass killings in two decades.

  • EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGThe President Should Not Have a License to Kill

    By David J. Bier

    The administration claims that the “war” on drugs justifies extrajudicial killing. But redefining civilian drug criminals as “combatants” gives away the reality: the government just militarized what was a low-level criminal law enforcement incident outside the United States. Once we consider the victims’ alleged illegal actions, we can see that the government committed the most egregious crime here.

  • GUNSGun Dealers Are Major Source of Trafficked Firearms

    By Amanda Watford

    Licensed gun dealers are a major source of firearms that end up illegally trafficked, according to a new analysis using federal data. The report estimates that 1.27 million guns will have been trafficked nationwide by 2026.

  • DEMOCRACY WATCHLabeling Dissent as Terrorism: New U.S. Domestic Terrorism Priorities Raise Constitutional Alarms

    By Melinda Haas

    There is no single official definition of terrorism in U.S. law, but all the different definitions focus on identifying violent or dangerous acts done with the intent to intimidate or coerce civilians or influence government policy. But more than redefining terrorism,National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-7, issued on 2 September 2025 (NSPM-7) reorients the machinery of national security toward the policing of belief. The directive’s emphasis on ideological orientations –“anti-Christianity, “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-American” views –as indicators of domestic terrorism potentially jeopardizes First Amendment rights.