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If we're going to have a society surveilled 24/7, let's begin at the top.

The lockdown strategy has made America less safe. there's a better approach.

This Administration may not know how to rule the world, but it sure can run a ritual.

This article is adapted from Sifry and Watzman's just-published Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day.

The quest for homeland security is heading, in ad hoc fashion, toward the quasi militarization of everyday life.

To all the arguments lodged against gay marriage, add this one--it's a matter of national security.

Travel agents booking international flights may have to issue a new
warning to their customers: Changing planes in the United States could
be hazardous to your health.

Nation interns march in New York City and Washington, DC.

He's an intriguing moral bellwether, Nathaniel Heatwole.

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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