How Prosecutors Turn A Protest Into a "Riot"

I joined hundreds of thousands of protesters at counterdemonstrations around Trump’s swearing-in. Little did I know I would be swept up into a legal nightmare that demonstrates how prosecutors intimidate and manipulate defendants into giving up their rights.

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The FBI’s Dangerous Crackdown on "Black Identity Extremists"

The "BIE" movement, just recently invented by the F.B.I., is as frightening and dangerous as the bureau’s infamous Cointelpro program of the 1960s and ’70s under which J. Edgar Hoover set out to disrupt and destroy virtually any group with the word “black” in its name.

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Town’s Private Prison Goes Bust

Contrary to popular belief, private prisons often don’t save the economies of the rural towns that seek them out.

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Debt Company Makes Sheriffs Rich by Jailing the Poor, Lawsuit Claims

A private company increases debts by 30 percent, then tells Oklahomans to pay up or go to jail. Law enforcement is in its pocket, a new lawsuit claims.

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America’s Secretive Private Prison Industry Is About to Become Much Less Secret

Dilley, a remote Texas town of 4,000 people, has enjoyed a booming local economy thanks to its most controversial feature: its private prison.

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The F.B.I.’s Black Phantom Menace

In a report that was never supposed to be made public, but was on Oct. 6 by foreignpolicy.org, the F.B.I.’s Counterterrorism Division has concluded that there is a real threat from the “black identity extremist” movement.

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The Prosecution of Inauguration-Day Protesters Is a Threat to Dissent

The government keeps expanding its efforts to prosecute J20 protesters, and this should alarm all of us.

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Leaked ICE Guide Offers Unprecedented View of Agency's Asset Forfeiture Tactics

An internal handbook obtained by The Intercept provides a rare view into the extensive asset seizure operations of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, an office that trains its agents to meticulously appraise the value of property before taking it.

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Malta Car Bomb Kills Panama Papers Journalist

Daphne Caruana Galizia, a blogger whose investigations focused on corruption, was described as a "one-woman WikiLeaks."

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Homeland Security Plans to Collect Immigrants’ Social Media Info

The rule, which would take effect Oct. 18, would allow the agency to collect information from US immigrants' Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts.

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