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Your tax dollars at work keeping you in the dark.

Definitions for a new age

Publishers of sponsored content are playing fast and loose with credibility, the ‘unique value proposition’ journalism has to offer.

Google eats the world.

A portrait of the journalist and intellectual who championed the caboclos of the young Brazilian republic.

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

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

What is the NSA doing with your metadata?

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

As the company moves to Internet-based telephone service, it’s looking to shed regulatory obligations that benefit low-income Americans.