Q&A: Laura Poitras

Astra Taylor

Are We in a Golden Age of Spying? A Q&A With Laura Poitras

The filmmaker behind the new Citizenfour talks about Snowden, the NSA and her dangerous pen.

Tom Engelhardt

‘Nation’ Exclusive: Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras Take on America’s Runaway Surveillance State

“The first principle of any American intelligence official is not an oath to secrecy but a duty to the public, a commitment to speak truth to power.”

Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras

Could Google and the NSA Make Whistleblowers Disappear?

There will be no need to kill a future Edward Snowden. He will already be dead.

Peter Van Buren

Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, the New Dissidents?

The United States is no Soviet Union—and yet it has set up machinery that satisfies certain tendencies that are in the genetic code of totalitarianism.

Jonathan Schell

Surveillance Blowback

The making of the US surveillance state, 1898–2020.

Alfred W. McCoy

It’s Time for a 21st Century Debate on Privacy and Surveillance

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

David K. Shipler