What would make the same paper-shredding-president opt to keep a safe with documents that might incriminate him in federal crimes?

Civil rights leader and commentator Maya Wiley speaks with Michael Tomasky about the FBI raid of Trump’s Florida home, the fallout, and the potential for violence.

Republicans only care about law enforcement when it targets their political enemies.

Conservatives are complaining that the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago was an egregious abuse of power. But the former president is just a Florida Man now.

After FBI informant Craig Monteilh failed to unearth extremism in Orange County mosques, he became an asset in local Muslims’ lawsuit against the agency. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in.

How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed Julian Assange

An explosive report on the plot against Michigan’s governor raises crucial questions about “anti-terror” enforcement, which can rest more on appearances than tangible change.

An impenetrable web of statistics is being used to deflect criticisms and reshape the media narrative around policing.

Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.

In his first 100 days, the president still hasn’t cleared his predecessor’s cronies out of the executive branch, where they’re free to sabotage his presidency.

While the Panthers have become a staple of pop culture, veteran members of the group remain invisible.

Some civilian investigators are even using facial-recognition technology to identify perpetrators—then reporting them to law enforcement.

How the president has used William Barr and other officials to turn the government into his personal fiefdom

Showtime’s new miniseries attempts to salvage a lesson from an unmitigated disaster.

What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies

The execution of Lezmond Mitchell, a Diné citizen, was a long, grisly test case about tribal sovereignty.

Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing

“Fear City” documents the 1970s mob in a familiar and increasingly unconvincing good guy vs. bad guy narrative.

Thanks to the Trump administration’s signature mix of incompetence and corruption, America is knee-deep in fraud and corporate malfeasance.

Hoda Muthana left the U.S. to join ISIS. Now she wants to return home to stand trial, but the Trump administration won’t let her. She is a test case for the future of birthright citizenship.