Power, policy, and the rhetoric designed to make both invisible.
Texas’s app-store age-verification law remains in effect after the Supreme Court declined to block it, making it the first of four state app-store age-verification laws to actually take effect while the other three remain stalled into 2027
Texas passed a law banning targeted ads to minors, and a federal judge has now struck it down in a second ruling that went further than his first, ruling it violated advertisers’ free speech rights
Connecticut, Arkansas, and Utah made their comprehensive privacy laws enforceable on July 1, adding a new wave of state-specific consent and opt-out rules for marketers to track this year
Why “we’re too small for GDPR” is the most expensive assumption in marketing
White House banned Anthropic in February. Now its own agencies are negotiating classified access to Mythos.
Why doctors are prescribing gardening clubs instead of pills — and why some patients hate it
How Trump turned provocation into a workshopped engagement strategy — and why outrage only helps
With Democratic favorable views of Israel at 19%, the Iran war has accelerated a party-wide fracture
The firehose strategy: AI-era propaganda doesn’t aim to persuade — it aims to make citizens stop caring
The quiet math of deportation: ICE data under Trump 2.0 tells a more complicated story
