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NYPD and Microsoft Launch Advanced Citywide Surveillance System
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a new crime-fighting system developed with Microsoft.
Are US Authorities Increasingly Trying to Limit User Freedom on the Internet in the Name of National Security?
In January 2012, two controversial pieces of legislation were making their way through the US Congress. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, …
Talking Populist, Walking Plutocrat: Paul Ryan on Dodd-Frank and the Volcker Rule
In a little noted speech to his constituents in May, Paul Ryan decried the u201ccrony capitalismu201d that he said, prompted the big bank bail-outs of 2008 (though he himself …
Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad: How Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life
After a decade of fiery public debate and bare-knuckle partisan brawling, the United States has stumbled toward an ad hoc bipartisan compromise over the issue of torture that rests …
Five Reasons Why Crisis Persists
This crisis is not going away. Officially begun late in 2007, nearly five years later, no end is in sight.
Outcry Against Police Union Leader’s Bigotry Makes for Unlikely Alliance of Cops, Occupiers
For the uninitiated, it is almost too fantastic to believe. A police department's union, supremely tone-deaf in a city with a discriminatory history, puts out a newsletter that open-heartedly …
Obama Defends Freedom of Religion: Be Not Afraid of Mitt Romney
The president allows each woman to decide for herself whether or not to ask her insurance company to cover contraception.
Virgin Galactic’s Space Tourism Venture for the 1% Will Warm the Globe for the Rest of Us
Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism venture, is charging $200,000 a seat for a few minutes of weightlessness and a view from outer space.
The Ryan Choice
A true ideologue, Paul Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of todayu2019s Republican Party.
Bill Moyers: In Paul Ryan, the Right at Last Has Their Man
This was never Romney's party, and without Karl Rove's shadowy money behind him, he would not have survived the primaries.