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Barrett Brown

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

Mike McConnell

Defense contractors and the government officials that pay them are more than happy to preserve the threat of attack—to their financial benefit. 

Computer user

What is the NSA doing with your metadata?

Julian Assange

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.

NSA court order

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

Obama

The five uncontrollable urges of a secrecy-surveillance world.

Mark Boal

How did a journalist whose career was devoted to exposing injustice end up writing a film like Zero Dark Thirty?

disarmament sculpture

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

Crosses marking immigrants' deaths

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.

Supreme Court

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

Blogs

The House voted to ban abortions after twenty weeks—which, if it became law, would be blatantly unconstitutional.

June 19, 2013

The human rights activist who has organized protests against the ban on female drivers will serve ten months in jail for the crime of "inciting a woman against her husband."

June 19, 2013

Increased militarization of police forces led to the 7-year-old’s death. It’s time we all recognize that.

June 19, 2013

Michelle Bachmann led a protest against immigration reform, but her argument is faulty.

June 19, 2013

A new media community takes root.

June 19, 2013

Our checks and balances have broken down. It’s time to rein in the national security complex.

June 19, 2013

Let's remember: ogling isn't journalism.

June 19, 2013

The Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs put on a game for the ages, reminding me of a similar one almost twenty-seven years ago.

June 19, 2013

The Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed reporter whose reporting ended General Stanley McChrystal's career died yesterday.

June 18, 2013

How are we supposed to abide by strict budget caps when adding ten million new Americans?

June 18, 2013