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Discredited Lie Detector Technology to Be Used on Intelligence Officials to Discourage Whistleblowing
The nationu2019s top intelligence official announced that the government is expanding its use of the polygraph to expose federal employees who leak classified information to the media.
Racial Profiling in Arizona: SB 1070 2(b) and Not to Be
As long as this issue is defined as that of too many brown people, too many Mexicans and too many people from Central and South America, there will never …
Election Countdown 2012: Michigan Activist Asks, “Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified?” After Health Care Ruling, and More
Lansing-based Republican activist on ObamaCare decision: u201cIs Armed Rebellion Now Justified?u201d
Homophobia on the Rise in Eastern Europe as Rightist Extremism Intensifies
Although police protection for the marchers improved after the first couple of years, the general situation of Hungary's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has worsened.
Who Bankrolled the Fight Against the Health Care Law?
The lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the National Federation for Independent Business (NFIB), is a highly partisan front …
Mad, Bad, Sad: What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers
PTSD is an epidemic among America's veterans.
How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What it Means for Your Online Privacy
How a young computer scientist discovered that Google was secretly planting cookies on a vast number of iPhone browsers.
House Headed Toward Contempt Vote on Holder, Could Be Bipartisan
An eleventh-hour deal elusive, the House of Representatives was poised to vote Thursday on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder, the nationu2019s highest-ranking law enforcement officer, in contempt …
Lessons From Occupy Wall Street’s First Political Prisoner
Mark Adams' short but excessive sentence is, for many, an introduction to the risks of dissent.
In Florida, Minimum Mandatory Sentencing Laws Fuel Push for Private Prisons
On Valentine's Day this year, Florida almost made the unprecedented move to privatize 29 of its prisons, but the legislation was narrowly defeated.