Daniel Mollenkamp

In late 2024, right before Donald Trump started his second term, the man in charge of Palantir Technologies donated $1 million to the Trump-supporting super political action committee, MAGA, Inc. Alexander Karp, the executive, later led the company as its predictive software helped select targets for deportation raids, amid harsh targeting of immigrants across the […]

Two investigations to check out before next week's midterms.

Glossy videos and photos on Briarcrest Christian School’s website highlight racially diverse groups of students laughing and playing.  Their marketing language promotes a “place of belonging,” within a firmly religious context.   Briarcrest, the private school behind these ads, enjoys a reputation for academic success in Shelby County, Tennessee — part of the cradle of the […]

In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential contest, as Donald Trump attacked mail-in voting and spread misinformation about widespread voter fraud, Public Interest Legal Foundation founder and president J. Christian Adams had a message for the activists at a closed-door gathering at the Council for National Policy. “Be not afraid of the accusations that you’re […]

Learn about economic security, its significance, and its historical development in the U.S. This impact extends to personal well-being and national stability.

Millions of voters head to the polls in little less than a month in a pivotal election that could determine the future of policies that have disproportionately harmed Black and Brown communities.  From rising Black unemployment and redistricting battles that could politically disempower lawmakers and voters of color to stepped-up ICE deportations and concerns that […]

Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Explore how different generations define the American Dream and the factors influencing their perspectives in today’s economic landscape.

As tech and government leaders gathered in recent days to debate the existential threat that artificial intelligence could one day pose to humanity, for many Black and Brown communities across the country, the infrastructure powering AI is already an environmental threat.  “Energy demand has spiked nationwide thanks to data centers, and we must ensure that […]

Over the past few months, three large companies have paid more than $63 million in settlements to the federal government as part of the Trump administration’s anti-DEI crusade.  The government claims the companies discriminated by using DEI practices for equitable recruitment, hiring, retention and training.  The latest came this week when Accenture, a large federal […]

Driven by the rise of ‘school choice,’ companies are trying to help parents navigate K-12 education options.

La’Nita Johnson considers herself somewhat lucky.  After the Trump administration mass-fired foreign assistance workers, she found work as a visiting professor at her alma mater and continued to build a consulting business.  That involved a pay cut that wrecked her financial stability, she said.  Before the cuts, Johnson was a tenured foreign service officer, focusing […]

The Internal Revenue Service, the federal tax agency, released a proposal Thursday that, if codified, could strip the tax-exempt status from thousands of private schools the administration deems racially discriminatory.  Consistent with the Trump administration’s attempts to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion policies, the proposal explains that the federal government considers racial preferences, such […]

La’Nita Johnson considers herself somewhat lucky. After the Trump administration mass-fired foreign assistance workers, she found work as a visiting professor at her alma mater and continued to build a consulting business. That involved a pay cut that wrecked her financial stability, as a tenured foreign service officer focusing on education initiatives.

The death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old mother found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi, has drawn “strange fruit” comparisons as details emerge during an ongoing investigation. “She did not do this to herself. I know my daughter, and she did not do this to herself,” Fortune’s mother told ABC News.  Last week, Kenneth […]

An Emancipator investigation examining 74 disability advocacy groups found that around thirty percent of well-funded organizations that receive significant federal grants and contracts likely changed their language around diversity, equity and inclusion since President Donald Trump took office. The Emancipator investigated this sector since federal funding pays for much of the work of many disability […]

An Emancipator investigation into federal contracts and grants awarded to 74 disability groups found that some of the top-10 most well-funded organizations may have changed their language around diversity, equity and inclusion since President Trump took office.

In Maryland, a Baltimore County student was handcuffed by police last year after an AI system misconstrued a Doritos bag as a weapon. The calls for reconsidering how the student’s high school uses the technology were not new. Only two years ago, the federal government went after one company that sells artificial intelligence-powered systems to […]

As Native people face cuts and diminished access to health care, the country is getting its first medical degree-granting school to open a campus on sovereign tribal land.  The program is the result of a partnership between a tribal healthcare system, Gila River Health Care, and the University of Arizona. The Gila River Indian Community […]

President Donald Trump’s recent clawback of nearly 3 million acres of protected land in Utah represents the largest removal of land from federal monument status in American history, an Emancipator investigation found. It is more than five times the amount of land all previous presidents combined had removed from monument status.    The land included Bears […]