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For critics of the surveillance state, it is tempting to see President Obama’s speech a few weeks ago as a partial victory: Prompted by …

We’ve pointed out in the past that President Obama’s views on the surveillance state shifted completely from when he was Senator to when he …

Continuing revelations of the extensive scope of the U.S. government’s mass spying program, piled on top of decades of foreign intervention and liberty suppression …

In 1859, a book was published with the title On Liberty. Written by John Stuart Mill, a philosopher of the time, this work focused …

Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government’s National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist’s …

Bitcoin has been making headlines for months now. Extreme price fluctuations have sparked a vigorous debate: Is it a currency or a scam? Is …

In the Huffington Post last week, Glenn Greenwald, Slate contributor Ryan Gallagher, and Ryan Grim had an investigative piece reporting that the NSA had …

The online Internet exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act are up and running. OK, they’re up. Uhh, OK, some of them are sort …

I’ve just spent a harrowing weekend reflecting on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the pamphlet that came out in January 1776 and turned the public …

It was a wild ride last week in the world of the Deep Web, that section of the Internet that requires special tools to …