So Your Government is Spying on You: What Now?
It’s been quite a week for civil libertarians. In case your head is still spinning from the very rapid and very public compromising of the security state’s house of cards, here’s a breakdown of the...
View ArticleIt’s About Power, not Privacy
Over the last week we have learned that the National Security Agency has been devouring our phone calls, emails, text messages, social networking data, credit card purchases, and who knows what else....
View ArticlePrivacy Will Be Hard to Get Back After We’ve Lost It
Last week’s revelations of NSA spying operations brought out into the open what many Americans have suspected for a long time: the United States government is gathering information, in secret, on...
View ArticleResurrecting the Anti-Authoritarian Left
In a 1995 speech at Michigan State University, Bill Clinton famously said, “there is nothing patriotic about hating your country, or pretending that you can love your country but despise your...
View ArticleAbolish the NSA
We have reached a point where nearly everyone can agree that the NSA has overreached on some margin. Where you draw the line depends upon you point of view—whether it was the broad surveillance...
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