Amid the outrage over the NSA's spying program, the jailing of journalist Barrett Brown points to a deeper and very troubling problem.

What is the NSA doing with your metadata?

Just as the Assange saga consumes too much of Alex Gibney’s film, so today’s Snowden obsession deflects attention away from our sprawling surveillance state.

Public knowledge and legal opinion have yet to catch up to the massive state spying enabled by new technologies.

The five uncontrollable urges of a secrecy-surveillance world.

A new campaign against robotic weapons systems is challenging society’s latest threat to peace.

Many progressives have accepted increased border security as a necessary tradeoff for getting a bill passed. The terms of this compromise will be paid in blood.

The unanimous decision is a victory for patients, women, scientists, doctors, researchers and human kind.

How to pre-convict and pre-punish an American Muslim.

Nearly five decades after Bloody Sunday in Selma, he’s in the fight of his life, as the Supreme Court threatens to overturn his signature achievement.