Break Facebook’s Power and Renew Journalism

We must take the Internet back from monopolies.

Victor Pickard

Privacy Breakthrough

Jen Sorensen

Power Needs to Be Restored to Internet Users

The problem is bigger than Facebook.

Micah L. Sifry

Don’t Delete Facebook, Regulate It

It should be treated like any other vital utility.

Bruce Shapiro

Democratic Defections Allow an Assault on Civil Liberties to Pass the House

If all Democrats had opposed the FISA Amendments and Reauthorization Act, they could have united with libertarian-leaning Republicans to block it.

John Nichols

Trump’s Border Security May Search Your Social Media by ‘Tone’

New databases are being built for this experimental surveillance.

Aaron Cantú and George Joseph

A Mark Zuckerberg Presidency Isn’t Ridiculous—It’s Terrifying

The Facebook CEO destroyed privacy as we know it. Imagine what he’d do in the White House.

Jake Bittle

Worried About Those Global Cyber Attacks? They Were Started by Washington

The notorious US spy agencies invented this monster, first with the Stuxnet virus against Iran—but then they lost control over it.

William Greider

Online Violence Is Eroding Our Republic

Young people on the left are afraid to be political on the Internet—and the founding fathers warned us about this.

Jonathan Taplin

Trump’s FCC Has Begun Its Attack on Net Neutrality

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for every American.

John Nichols