James Baratta

A New York City art show featured works by the American Indian Movement activist, who was incarcerated for nearly half a century until a partial commutation by President Biden. The post Leonard Pe...

A Republican senator seeking re-election in Ohio once touted data centers. He tried to pass a bill that fell short of requiring them to pay their fair share. No wonder it failed. The post Senate D...

Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back. The post ‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt appeared first on ...

Democratic House candidates in two New York metropolitan area districts had markedly different performances in debates against the Republican incumbents they’re trying to unseat. The post A Tale o...

The director of national intelligence appears to be withholding an explosive court opinion that could give lawmakers all the more reason to meaningfully reform surveillance law. The post Trump Adm...

States giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least, Hawaii and Montana are trying. The post Can the States Stop the Corporate D...

Cait Conley is leading the two-term incumbent in the polls, but on the airwaves, Lawler dominates. Why have Democrats been reluctant to spend as much as in other swing districts? The post NY-17: W...

State lawmakers have forbidden local police from participating in mass deportation. Some sheriffs think they are above the law. The post Rogue Sheriffs Revolt Against New York Law Ending ICE Partn...

SB 492 stops short of a Marshall Plan for fire survivors, but it averts the harms of Gavin Newsom’s now-collapsed wildfire utility bailout. The post California Wildfire Package Preserves Survivors...

At the end of the legislative session, the Democratic governor and presidential hopeful wants to cap liability for power companies that start deadly fires. The post Wildfire Survivors Push Back Ag...

If you’re a liberal activist or union member, the Trump administration wants to know everything about you. But if you’re a foreign oligarch laundering money, you can count on it looking the other ...

The $85 billion proposed merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would create the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. Workers, shippers, and even business rivals are against it. Th...

Amazon and Walmart are well equipped to detect deceptive claims about where products are made. Their own AI chatbots describe the choice not to act as a business decision. The post The Great ‘Made...

The Justice Department is dropping its subpoenas of New York Times journalists. The episode may make it impossible to extend the government’s warrantless spying program. The post Jay Clayton’s Sub...

President Trump’s overhaul of the federal student loan system is now underway. It seems to have inadvertently expedited a legal challenge to his alleged shadow repeal of a repayment plan establish...