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This year's post-election “lame duck” congressional session presents several disturbing threats—alongside exciting opportunities—for fundamental civil liberties. Measures extending government authority to conduct dragnet warrantless wiretapping, and arbitrarily detain Americans …

This week the Senate Judiciary Committee wants to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act which would ensure that our online activity is given the same privacy protections as snail …

Those who rise to power in the corporatocracy are control freaks, addicted to the buzz of power over other human beings, and so it is natural for such authorities …

With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romneyu2019s loss three weeks ago, we talk to a guest who was once one of the most influential …

While the honchos in charge of Hostess were demanding deep cuts in worker's pay, health care and pensions, they quietly jacked up their own pay.

The voice of the people on the shop floor has been conspicuously missing from coverage of the Hostess strike and bankruptcy.

Until a few months ago, Portugal was seen as a role model in the grinding euro zone crisis, adopting deep spending cuts and raising taxes to reduce its deficit without the …

Bradley Manning is being punished u2013 and tortured u2013 for a crime that amounts to believing oneu2019s highest duty is to the American people and not the American government.

Part three in a series that examines pportunities for the Obama administration, in its second term, to finally pursue his 2008 campaign promise to restore civil liberties.

Progressive Democrats lobby against a Grand Bargain that will further unravel the social safety net.