surveillance

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 …

I opened a new bottle of probiotics this morning, and it had one of those circular seals on the top. You know, the one …

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

Three months after Edward Snowden’s leaks began to reveal the extent of the U.S.’ mass surveillance program, “serious people” are beginning to make the …

Many people do not seem to mind the government peeping into their “metadata” or even into their emails, Internet habits, or phone calls. Mark …

A cornered rat has a deadly bite, or so says the lore from the 19th century, when rat baiting was common sport. The same …

Edward Snowden is in big trouble for revealing that our government is doing to its own citizens what the U.S. once accused Russia of doing to its citizens. In what is really a bizarre turn of events, Russia has become a safe haven for an American whistle-blower.

“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will …

My passport is festooned with patriotic blather about freedom and democracy. It didn’t used to be this way. The less freedom we have, the …