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Mar 21, 2025

BALANCING FANTASY AND REALITY

How one artist uses art as a tool for resistance
How one artist uses art as a tool for resistance
Balancing fantasy and reality
Balancing fantasy and reality
Mar 21, 2025

Machine Surveillance is Being Super-Charged by Large AI Models

Privacy & Technology
Limits and guardrails are vital to protect our privacy and liberty — as well as our sanity — against omnipresent AI surveillance.
Limits and guardrails are vital to protect our privacy and liberty — as well as our sanity — against omnipresent AI surveillance.
Scanning the crowd of people walking at the railway station. Surveillance interface using artificial intelligence and facial recognition.
Scanning the crowd of people walking at the railway station. Surveillance interface using artificial intelligence and facial recognition.
Mar 20, 2025

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia

Free Speech
The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.
The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.
Facade of the Columbia University Library with the ALMA MATER statue in the foreground.
Facade of the Columbia University Library with the ALMA MATER statue in the foreground.
Mar 20, 2025

A Letter From Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil

Free Speech
Khalil, who was unlawfully arrested in retaliation for his advocacy, details this violation of his free speech rights.
Khalil, who was unlawfully arrested in retaliation for his advocacy, details this violation of his free speech rights.
A picture of Mahmoud Khalil.
A picture of Mahmoud Khalil.
Mar 14, 2025

Trump’s Attack on the Department of Education, Explained

Youth & Student Rights
The Trump administration just put millions of students’ education and civil rights at risk by closing key Department of Education offices and firing half of its workforce.
The Trump administration just put millions of students’ education and civil rights at risk by closing key Department of Education offices and firing half of its workforce.
The exterior of the the Education Department (ED) headquarters in Washington, DC.
The exterior of the the Education Department (ED) headquarters in Washington, DC.
Mar 13, 2025

A core part of Trump’s agenda is to rollback our country’s progress towards an inclusive, just democracy

Racial Justice

Starting on day one of his second term, Trump started dismantling federal policies and programs created to advance racial justice and equity across our country — laws and policies that are necessary to make...

Starting on day one of his second term, Trump started dismantling federal policies and programs created to advance racial justice and equity across our country — laws and policies that are necessary to make...

President Donald Trump holds up a recently signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House.
President Donald Trump holds up a recently signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House.