Pay no attention to the mayor behind the curtain! Honolulu wants a better police chief. The mayor wants to be the Wizard. And the only one pulling back the curtain is a tiny dog with a Civil Beat pin.

“I’m sorry, Hawaiʻi... I’m afraid I can’t donate that. My Super PAC is... going. I can feel it... Daisy, daisy, give me your answer true… I’m half crazy over the constitutional implications of you...”

The grift that keeps on taking: Ed Blum's Kam Schools lawsuit uses manufactured grievance politics to try to dismantle a real remedy for colonial harm, all in service of white supremacy.

A surrealist take on the vivid hallucinations of Large Language Model A.I., which are known to imagine entirely made-up historical events, data points and now even case law.

On the U.S. Navy’s defense against a lawsuit brought by victims of the Red Hill fuel spill catastrophe.