Editorial Cartoons
Editorial Cartoons
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Students Under Surveillance
Sep 25, 2025 The digital repression of university activism around Palestine enters its third year, and the cameras continue to multiply.Southern California Journalism Award: Second Place, Activism Journalism
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The Police State, Powered by Palantir
Apr 24, 2025 ICE’s mass deportation tech is undergoing an upgrade.
Courts & Law
Police Leveraged Shoplifting Panic To Gear Up
Apr 3, 2025 The “crime panic” was a myth. But an analysis by The Appeal shows the narrative helped local police buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, surveillance tech and more.
Technology
AI-Powered Surveillance Takes Off in Texas
Apr 1, 2025 Operation Lone Star has turbocharged surveillance capabilities in Texas. State lawmakers say they want to block the potential of an AI police state, but legislation has been modest.
Immigration
ICE Swiftly Expands Its Sprawling Surveillance Apparatus
Jan 31, 2025 Within days of Trump’s presidential win, ICE sought out contractors to enlarge and modernize the agency’s ability to surveil noncitizens.
Editorial Cartoons
Drones in December Skies
Dec 19, 2024
Technology
Texas State Police To Massively Expand Surveillance Tech
Sep 3, 2024 The state will spend millions on a controversial software as part of Gov. Abbott’s border crackdown, as well as to “disrupt potential domestic terrorism.”
Military
The US Legacy of ‘Security’ Lives on 22 Years Later
Sep 11, 2023 Despite being out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. has normalized a militarized approach to security worldwide.
Technology
Concerns Remain as UN Cybercrime Convention Enters Final Phase
Aug 3, 2023 UN Cybercrime Convention negotiations enter final Phase with troubling surveillance powers still on the table.
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The Farce of Microsoft’s Anti-Racism and the Capture of Academia
Apr 17, 2023 In recent years, most large tech corporations have begun pushing anti-racism public relations and touting their donations to Black causes. There is no company more steeped or skilled in this practice than the elder of the group, Microsoft. By deploying fleets of flacks, messaging professionals and hired intellectuals, the company has managed to maintain a pristine image as a “moral leader” of Big Tech, while avoiding and deflecting attention from its deep and sordid history of collaboration with police, prisons, intelligence agencies and militaries.