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Tarek Mehanna got seventeen years in prison for translating a document.

Fifty years after the publication of The Other America, imagining that the author would find cause for hope—and dismay—in today's political culture.

The Internet as a toy with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.

Hollywood didn’t do itself proud with the anti-piracy bills. But in their fervor to defeat them, the self-proclaimed defenders of Internet freedom got a lot of things wrong.

Have copyright laws failed?

Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country.

After months of political upheaval and chaos in the bond markets, few investors believe austerity programs are a route to growth and debt reduction.

The proof-of-concept phase for feminist online movement-building is long past. Now it's time for a funded feminist web.

Baltimore and New York are requiring crisis pregnancy centers to disclose basic information about their services. But some judges say these ordinances violate the First Amendment.

Eight disastrous years after we invaded, it is sad but altogether true that Iraq does not matter much in the end.