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When Congressional Oversight Looks the Other Way: CISA Dodges Accountability
A cybersecurity agency that violated Americans' constitutional rights got a budget hearing instead of a reckoning
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Christine Alemany
The Iran Standoff: Who's Really Winning the Decades-Long Showdown?
Listen now | How China profits and American taxpayers lose while hawks and doves battle over Tehran's nuclear ambitions
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Christine Alemany
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The Political Choreography Behind CISA's (Potentially) Clean Reauthorization
Despite two years to address constitutional overreach, Congress manufactures an emergency reauthorization over genuine reform
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Christine Alemany
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How CISA Became America's Domestic Censorship Agency
A 2023 congressional investigation revealed the transformation of a cybersecurity agency into a tool for silencing American citizens – findings that…
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Christine Alemany

May 2025

The Case Against Tax Cuts for the Top 1%
Why America Can't Afford to Keep Subsidizing the Super-Rich
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Christine Alemany
Listen: How America's Rigged Healthcare System Keeps Your Drug Prices Sky-High
Listen now | Imagine paying $96,000 a year for a medication that costs just $10,000 in Canada.
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Christine Alemany
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When Politics Paused: Breaking the Crypto Chaos
Amid political theater, lawmakers and experts agree on fixing the regulatory maze to protect consumers and keep innovation in the U.S.
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Christine Alemany
USAID’s Fall from Grace
How America’s Aid Empire Fueled Chaos and Lost to China
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Christine Alemany
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The Iran Standoff: Who's Really Winning the Decades-Long Showdown?
How China profits and American taxpayers lose while hawks and doves battle over Tehran's nuclear ambitions
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Christine Alemany
2

April 2025

How America's Rigged Healthcare System Keeps Your Drug Prices Sky-High
Imagine paying $96,000 a year for a medication that costs just $10,000 in Canada.
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Christine Alemany
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From Aurora’s Fear to the Supreme Court: A Deportation Crisis
Listen now | A father’s wrongful deportation and a town’s gang siege spark a constitutional showdown.
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Christine Alemany
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Shadow Searches: How Government 'Queries' Bypass Your Constitutional Rights
From Obama to Trump to Biden: The surveillance state that never sleeps. Our government's surveillance apparatus has routinely expanded to target U.S…
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Christine Alemany
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