June 15, 2015 Issue
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Feature
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA
A new cybersecurity elite moves between government and private practice, taking state secrets with them.
Tim Shorrock
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The Key to Ending Mass Surveillance? Math.
Encryption is a better safeguard of our civil liberties than the law.
Eleanor Saitta
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What Amazon Taught the Cops
Predictive policing is just another form of supply-chain efficiency.
Ingrid Burrington
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How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
Welcome to the new Wild West of data collection without regulation.
Astra Taylor and Jathan Sadowski
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These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us
How workplace surveillance has become a menace to health and safety.
Jessica Bruder
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Want to Cut Welfare? There’s an App for That.
Conservatives explore cutting benefits behind a high-tech facade.
Virginia Eubanks
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Editorial
‘Tech’ Is Political—How We Respond to It Needs to Be Just as Political
New technologies will not solve our problems: People acting collectively will.
Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor
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Why a Democratic Insurgency Is ‘Whupping’ Obama on Trade
His progressive critics have been studying trade deals for two decades—and they know what they’re talking about.
John Nichols
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How the Irish Became the World’s Leading Gay Activists
Defying conventional wisdom, the huge win by the Yes Equality campaign involved young and old, rural and urban, Catholic and non-Catholic voters.
Margaret Spillane
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Column
What We Really Learned From Jeb Bush’s Tongue-Tied Response to Questions About Iraq
The mainstream media are unwilling to hold the architects of the war accountable.
Eric Alterman
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What No One Is Saying About the Cleveland Police Shooting Case: It’s Legal Nonsense
This judge’s ruling could make it a lot harder to prosecute manslaughter.
Patricia J. Williams
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Books & the Arts
Enlightened. Elitist. Undemocratic.
Has the EU followed a path first blazed by Napoleon?
David A. Bell
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Can Science Go Back to the Future?
Trying to bring extinct species back to life is the latest symptom of ecological anxiety.
Cathy Gere
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Against the Barricades
Exposing the debasement of language in service to ideologies was Renata Adler’s cause.
Katie Ryder
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