Splashed all over this weekend’s news was the capture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera aka, El Chapo, the Mexican drug kingpin ranked #67 on Forbes’s “Powerful People” list who got his billions from the being the man in at the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, responsible for an estimated 25 percent of the illegal drugs that […]
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The Good War, Now Not So Good
For the first time, a plurality of Americans think invading Afghanistan was a mistake.
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America In Decline
Bad news: the USA accounts for a mere 4 out of every 10 dollars the human race spends on the machinery of war.
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The Moment of Creation
Do America’s current challenges in the Middle East trace back to Harry Truman’s 1948 missteps?
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Federal Board Finds NSA Program Illegal and Unjustified
And it remains far from clear that collecting metadata is a better means of protecting national security than searches based on individual suspicion.
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Defense Spending Is the Most Expensive Way to Create Jobs
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter costs as much as $8 million for every job created.
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The Examined Life of the Digital Age
Before long, it may become impossible to be anonymous.
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One Small Step for the Fourth Amendment
Obama’s NSA reforms are a start, but they don’t go far enough.
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The Surveillance State of Tomorrow
Cell phone metadata is nothing compared to what will be gathered about you before long. And the NSA wants it all.
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Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities.
Marginalized groups are often governments’ test subjects. Here are a few lessons we can learn from their experiences.