scammers be scamming It's not just you — social security scam phone calls are 23 times more common this year Thom Dunn

foia Crowdfunding public access to the Social Security death index Cory Doctorow

scams Forty-eight states sue Avid Telecom for 7.5 billion robocalls Mark Frauenfelder

politics President Biden protects social security while disregarding Marjorie Tayor Greene Jason Weisberger

politics Nikki Haley's first big proposal? Raise the retirement age and cut Social Security and Medicare benefits for "the new generation" Rob Beschizza

Your tax dollars at work Two women issued the same Social Security Number, and the SSA won't help Mark Frauenfelder

maps Redlining maps show racism and white supremacy "in 1930s technicolor" Elías Villoro

surveillance New DHS reports reveals terrifying scope of the Department's manufactured Antifa scare Thom Dunn

crime Fraudsters stole $45.6 billion in pandemic assistance Rob Beschizza

trump Trump under investigation for violating the US Espionage Act, obstruction of justice, and destroying federal government records Mark Frauenfelder

fraud Man's disability fraud spoiled by wife's Instagram posts showing him lifting weights and transforming into a body builder David Pescovitz

Culture Creative industry workers suffer the most stolen wages, according to UNESCO Thom Dunn

politics U.S. military vows to cleanse armed forces of extremists and white supremacists Mark Frauenfelder

democracy Nobody's off the hook Marina Gorbis

politics Names reported in Trump bribery-for-pardon scheme: Elliott Broidy, Abbe Lowell, Sanford Diller, Hugh L. Baras Xeni Jardin

assassinations The government can "unilaterally decide to kill US citizens," according to Justice Department lawyers Thom Dunn

surveillance French government proposes new ban on filming and photographing police Thom Dunn

Business WeChat users in U.S. will not be penalized, says Justice Department Xeni Jardin

COVID-19 Trump's 50-point plan for a second-term is impressively hollow and meaningless. Thom Dunn

Trump's America The GOP's Official 2020 platform is literally just a loyalty pledge to Trump Thom Dunn