‘The Most Dangerous Man in America’

The Watergate scandal was the final straw in Richard Nixon's fall from grace.

Tim Weiner

Amnesty for Edward Snowden

His claims have been vindicated by the courts, Congress, and the US public. It’s time to bring him home.

Martin Garbus

Snowden’s Vindication

An appeals court declares the NSA’s data grab illegal.

David Cole

Let’s Give Edward Snowden the Same Deal General Petraeus Got for Leaking Info

A guilty plea to a misdemeanor, and no jail time.

Jon Wiener

What I Learned From Breaking the Law

In 1971, I helped burglarize an FBI office and leaked documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover’s abuses of power. Here’s what that experience taught me.

John Raines

Edward Snowden: A ‘Nation’ Interview

In a wide-ranging conversation, he discusses the surveillance state, the American political system and the price he’s paid for his understanding of patriotism.

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen

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

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