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Guantanamo protest

As the hunger strike approaches its 100th day on May 17, 100 prisoners are refusing food.

West, TX

There ought to be a response to violence besides callous indifference and total social warfare.

Guantánamo Bay detention center

That’s the unanimous conclusion of a nonpartisan task force. It should teach us not to overreact to the Boston bombings.

Boston bombing memorial

We're still searching for the elusive balance between safety and liberty. Maybe, in the response to this attack, America can get it right.

Ahmed Ferhani

The government says he is a terrorist. But his conversations with undercover police tell a different story.

More than a million requests for cell phone records by law enforcement is just the beginning of the surveillance story.

Why we should all be concerned about the unconstitutional tactics law enforcement agencies are using against American Muslims.

How the intelligence community is creating a new American world.

Army Humvees

The National Defense Authorization Act would authorize indefinite military detention for US citizens, stripping Americans of their constitutional rights.

Surveillance

The Department of Justice has told the Supreme Court that police should be allowed to secretly put GPS devices on our cars. But we have already surrendered more privacy than we realize.

Blogs

More than a decade after Congress passed the PATRIOT Act, its varied implications are still unraveling.

February 24, 2012

A decade ago, there was near-universal acknowledgement that profiling was unethical and ineffective. Yet the practice continues.

September 6, 2011

The plan to renew the Patriot Act may have the backing of Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders and the Obama White House. But this is bad bipartisanship.

May 23, 2011

Lately, when the term “bipartisan compromise” is tossed around, it tends to mean that Democrats are giving in to the Republican position on issues, or that women's rights are being sacrificed to some larger purpose.

February 10, 2011

Our country has a pattern of losing its mind over issues that later turn out to be insignificant.

August 17, 2010

The usual leapers leap to their conclusions.

May 3, 2010

It's time for the naysayers to wake up and smell the Bill of Rights.

April 2, 2010

If four politically-motivated young men with left-wing (or Muslim), rather than right-wing ties, broke into the office of a senior Senate Homeland Security Committee member and gained access to her computer files -- do you think we'd be hearing less about hijinks and more about Guantanamo?

February 2, 2010