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U.S. Supreme Court Weighs How Far Police Investigations Can Go in Using Cellphone Location Data
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to allow law enforcement to continue seeking warrants for the location history of cellphones near crime scenes, even as the justices wrestled with how far the government must go to protect Americans’ privacy. 31 states and DC argue that geofence warrants can be more precise than many traditional investigative methods.
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The U.S.S. Liberty Incident: How a Tragic Mistake Became an Enduring Antisemitic Trope
One of the most enduring consequences of the tragic attack on the Liberty was the construction of conspiracy theories that asserted the Israeli attack was deliberate and offered various conspiratorial rationalizations as to why Israel would want to attack a ship of a friendly nation.
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What the Claude Mythos Release Illustrates About Policy and Innovation
A principles-based, narrowly targeted, light-touch approach to regulation is better suited to emerging technologies. This provides for a more flexible, less prescriptive response to the rapidly changing environments common in nascent industries.
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Asylum-Seekers Could Lose Right to Work Under Proposed Trump Administration Rules
That option to work could close soon for asylum-seekers for the foreseeable future, as DHS says it could pause work permits until a case backlog of ‘between 14 and 173 years’ is cleared.
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Ballots Become Battlegrounds for Voting Rules, Redistricting, Election Power
More than a third of state ballot measures that voters will be asked to consider this year relate to democracy, with questions on voting rights, election processes, redistricting and similar issues.
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Minnesota County Charges ICE Agent in “Milestone” Prosecution
Minnesota prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a federal immigration agent for his actions during Operation Metro Surge. This comes as the state is pursuing more than a dozen additional investigations as part of Minnesota’s effort to scrutinize federal law enforcement.
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Trump’s DOJ Wants Personal Voter Data for ‘Improper Purposes,’ Michigan Official Says
The Department of Justice’s stated reason for obtaining sensitive personal data on millions of voters masks the Trump administration’s true intention for obtaining state voter lists, Michigan’s top election official asserted in federal appeals court Monday.
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Schmidt v. City of Norfolk Brief: Automated License Plate Readers Commit Fourth Amendment Searches
Norfolk, Virginia, has deployed nearly 200 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the city, capturing every passing vehicle’s location, time, and identifying details—and storing that data for weeks. Now, two residents are suing.
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This Law May Help Prevent Mass Shootings, but GOP-Led States Are Trying to Ban It
Red flag laws once enjoyed support from across the political spectrum. Now, six Republican-controlled states have prohibited enforcing the orders — and in some cases, prescribed fines or criminal charges for officials who try. Three other states are considering similar bans in 2026.
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Pulling Reports, Playing Politics
The CIA’s retraction of intelligence reports should raise concerns about politicization and the Trump administration’s embrace of white supremacist rhetoric.
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Bogus “Antifa” Designations and FBI Warrantless Access to Americans’ Communications
FISA Section 702’s “Back Door,” allowing access to Americans’ communications, is ripe for abuse especially in the context of the administration’s campaign to paint “antifa” as an international and domestic terrorist threat. Because it is amorphous and untethered to the facts, the “antifa” label creates a framework for bringing peaceful civil society organizations and everyday Americans exercising their right to protest into the Section 702 surveillance net.
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Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled
Over the past 10 months, President Donald Trump’s administration has made much of its success in sweeping through U.S. cities, capturing unauthorized immigrants and arresting people who publicly oppose the operations, routinely accusing dissenters of being domestic terrorists or extremists. Less clear to the public is what has happened to those charged.
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From Lecture Halls to Jail Cells: The Rising Risks of University Research
Universities should be clear-eyed about the need to negotiate trade-offs between research security and international engagement. National export-control authorities also need to provide adequate guidance and support to university institutions and researchers navigating increasingly onerous export-control regimes.
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AI Can Design and Run Thousands of Lab Experiments without Human Hands. Humanity Isn’t Ready for the New Risks This Brings to Biology
What happens when the same capabilities operate outside those controls is a question that policy has not yet answered. Overreact, and talent and investment may move elsewhere while the technology continues advancing anyway. Underreact, and the risks of that technology could be exploited to cause real harm.
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The Election in Hungary Could Help Curb the Rightward Shift in Europe, a Researcher Believes
The opposition in Hungary has a good chance of winning the election on April 12, according to researchers. This could have major consequences, both for Hungarians and for the rest of Europe.
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The long view
Artificial Intelligence Is Facing a Crisis of Control—and the Industry Knows It
Washington appears to be years away from consensus on the expanding security risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence (AI). Concrete international agreements also do not yet exist. There is a tenuous potential path forward to avoid a disaster, but it will require out-of-the-box thinking, intense determination, and unprecedented cooperation.