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Officials leak secrets to advance careers or justify wars and weapons programs, but Edward Snowden’s the criminal?

Meet the corporations who are profiting off our prison system.

Americans remain mostly blind to the abusive treatment of terror suspects on US soil.

Protecting the whistleblower who laid bare the uglier sides of the American administration.

The NSA isn’t the only government agency exploiting technology to make privacy obsolete.

The reports I’ve seen describe Nairobi’s Westgate mall as upscale, but that’s not the whole story, and not how I remember it.

The City of Chicago has paid tens of millions of dollars in settlements with victims of brutality under Police Commander Jon Burge. But justice is far from done—and some victims are still in prison.

As an investigative journalism student, I helped uncover proof that should have cleared Anthony McKinney’s name. Instead, he died in prison.

Progressives supported Prop 30 to send more money to schools but now the funds are headed to prisons. How could this happen—and can it be stopped?

How the security state’s mania for secrecy will create you.