• The network is the largest off-reservation, tribally owned and operated broadband project in Wisconsin's history.
• The Sokaogon Mole Lake Ojibwe Tribe is launching a $72 million broadband network in northeast Wisconsin.
• This project will install 900 miles of fiber-optic cable to serve about 4,600 homes and businesses.

The Sokaogon Mole Lake Ojibwe Tribe in northeast Wisconsin is launching the largest off-reservation tribally owned and operated broadband network in the state’s history.

The $72 million project promises to bring high-speed internet service faster and more reliably than anything currently available for rural communities in the region, including Elon Musk’s Starlink. Internet service has been spotty and unreliable in the region.

The United States woke up on Feb. 28 to news that President Trump had ordered strikes on Iran without congressional authorization, launching another illegal, deadly and expanding war in the Middle East. 

With nearly two-thirds of people in the United States opposed to airstrikes on Iran, inquiring minds will turn to news sources and the internet to understand what’s happening and why. And with the growing threats of massive media consolidation and biased AI, it will only grow more challenging for people to access truthful, unbiased information in this scary and chaotic moment. 

Indeed, Trump and his allies have made it no secret that their strategy is to consolidate the media into the hands of right-wing oligarchs and to — as Steve Bannon would say — “flood the zone with shit.” The goal is to make it difficult for people to discern fact from fiction. These figures modeled their takeover of our media system after what autocrat Viktor Orbán did when he destroyed independent journalism in Hungary.

It’s straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

Trump and his allies are working to consolidate the media into the hands of right-wing oligarchs. This is especially dangerous in a time of war.

ICE relies on the firm for deportation tech—and Palantir’s PAC pays it forward to Congress.

As the Trump administration continues to violently occupy Minnesota, the role of the defense tech firm Palantir—which continues to sell its data mining, automation, and surveillance technology to ICE—is coming under increasing scrutiny. A new tool, launched Thursday, follows the money making it happen.

Palantir Payroll, the product of an effort by the campaign Purge Palantir, compiles data from FEC filings to account for the two-way cash flow: from the government to Palantir via contracts, and from company executives to elected officials. 

The campaign’s Jacinta González, head of programs at the progressive communications shop MediaJustice, says the tool helps bring to light Palantir’s business model to “operate in the shadows” through lobbying and political donations.

The trustbuster on what she's learned — and still learning — about how to use the machinery of government to deliver for people.

We talked live this afternoon with Lina Khan, the veteran trustbuster, Columbia Law professor, and former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, about what she’s been doing as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team, how the new mayor can deliver on his campaign promises, and whether (and what) other Democrats can learn from him. Khan talked to us about:

• How Mamdani found a way work with Donald Trump without leaving his principles at the door

• The considerable overlap between the Epstein circle and the influential critics of her tenure at the FTC, and why she believes that is

• Whether New York City should wrest back control over its finances from the state

• Whether Democrats need to ditch their donor class

• And what she is investigating next as she returns to academic life

I want to talk about this Warner Brothers hostile takeover, which now we know involves Jared Kushner, some foreign governments. Can you break this down for us, what it is and in your opinion about this?

We’ve seen an extraordinary amount of consolidation already happen in Hollywood. And this would just mean that people have fewer options, that writers and creators in Hollywood have fewer options in terms of where they can sell their ideas, where they can distribute their ideas. Prices would go up. There could be, you know, horrible ramifications for just the future of Hollywood generally.

And so there are a lot of major, major red flags from a law enforcement perspective. I mean, we have in this country still antitrust, anti monopoly laws that are supposed to stop this type of extreme consolidation and on their face, both of these deals look illegal. 

When the modern electric vehicle was still in its infancy, drivers worried that vehicles would need expensive battery replacements within a few years. But battery lifespans are exceeding expectations.

US and Ecuadorian forces launched joint operations Tuesday targeting suspected narco-terrorists in Ecuador, US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said.

SOUTHCOM said it was taking “decisive action” against designated terrorist organizations, though it was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.

“On March 3, Ecuadorian and US military forces launched operations against Designated Terrorist Organizations in Ecuador,” SOUTHCOM posted on X.

Artificial intelligence (AI) models used for a simulated war game escalated conflicts by threatening nuclear strikes in 95% of scenarios, according to new research from King’s College London.

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2026 – Iridium is asking federal regulators not to allow a deal that would see AST SpaceMobile offer direct-to-cell service on Ligado’s satellite spectrum.

Iridium, which uses spectrum in the same band, says the applicants hadn’t properly coordinated with incumbents to prevent interference, and that the deal would ultimately amount to a transfer of license without the proper process.

Join us for a Brown2026 lecture on how access to information in the digital age can affect civic participation.

We are presenting field data evaluating real-time broadband and cellular transfer rates across Rhode Island—a study that serves as a modern audit of our state’s “informational infrastructure.”

In the 18th century, the pulse of the American Revolution was maintained through the physical distribution of the printed word.

Today, reliable broadband has superseded the postal road, becoming a civic necessity as fundamental as electricity or running water. Just as the Committees of Correspondence once relied on reliable horse-bound routes to organize the colonies, modern Rhode Islanders rely on digital lanes to access community services, local news, and the inner workings of our democracy.  Historically, the withholding of information has served as a silent form of disenfranchisement.

Without equitable access to broadband, the modern constituent faces barriers reminiscent of pre-revolutionary information blackouts:

America's wealthiest, shittiest people are trying to hoover up the entirety of new and old media companies in a bid to pummel the plebs with propaganda. But what they want, and what they actually get, may not be the same thing.

A Duke study finds shifting when data centers use electricity could avoid billions in new power plant costs and limit natural gas expansion as AI demand grows.

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is forcing utilities to confront a question they have not faced in more than a decade: how to meet a surge in electricity demand.

Across the country, companies are racing to build data centers that train and run AI systems.