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Faced with the prospect of trying to convict a man for leaking unclassified information, the DoJ put together a misdemeanor plea deal.

In this speech delivered at the 2011 National Conference for Media Reform in Boston, Representative Ed Markey calls on netizens to fight back against the threats posed by media consolidation and the Republican Party's attacks on public broadcasting.

Egyptians’ aspirations to democracy and social justice will depend on workers’ willingness to take to the streets.

Finally, after decades of catastrophic civil war, Africa may give birth to a new nation.

This election season, we are witnessing an assault on democracy by multinational corporations that, freed by the Citizens United ruling, are out to get the best government money can buy.

With Pentagon cash, contractors bribe insurgents not to attack supply lines for US troops

Obama makes reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then adopts whatever appalling policy Bush put in place.

Behind the scrim of boom times there was always debt and sex--and the intimate economy of panic and desire.

The Nation joins the ACLU and several other organizations and attorneys in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the FISA act.

The Republican candidate's maverick image obscures his cozy relationship with lobbyists.