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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?

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.

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

The five uncontrollable urges of a secrecy-surveillance world.

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

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

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.

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