The Communard: Reading Current Events Through History
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DHS wants an AI that learns from its own past redactions to decide what the public doesn’t get to see
The federal government’s biggest source of FOIA requests is paying Deloitte to automate the part of the process where records get blacked out.
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From the Editorials
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Opinion
The mail-ballot ruling was a stay of execution, not a pardon. Treat it like one.
The Supreme Court blocked Trump’s mail-voting rule on timing, not on principle. A win that expires the moment the calendar allows it isn’t a win worth…
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The Senate gives Wyoming 68 times the voting power of California. It is time to abolish it.
A Congress that actually reflected popular will would have one house, elected by population, not two, one of which exists to let a shrinking minority overrule…
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Gloria Steinem changed what a woman could sign her own name to. We still don’t own our time.
She won the easier fight, against real resistance, and it wasn’t small. The harder one is still mostly unfought.