Human Rights

The NSA revelations show the urgent need to reform the laws governing surveillance and to rein in the intelligence community.

Chris Hedges: Those who wield unchecked power over the citizenry live in “the prerogative state,” and the masses trapped in their totalitarian structure live in “the normative state.”

Saying something doesn't exist will not make that true; it is a sort of word magic that reinforces the unacknowledged status quo.

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host a debate on former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and his disclosure of the massive spying apparatus the NSA operates in the …

What passes for most ‘conversations about race,’ particularly in corporate media, which shape public perception, are narrow or wrong.

What have we learned since the internment of Japanese-Americans in desert concentration camps and converted race tracks?

According to a new report from Reporters Without Borders, there was a profound erosion of press freedom in the United States in 2013.

Former NSA intelligence analyst and whistleblower Kirk Wiebe says that the NSA has lived a mostly unconstitutional existence, and that any oversight will require an independent group to have …

Black History Month provides an opportunity to reflect on a past we should never forget and the extent to which the legacy of racial inequality is still with us.

In the first expose for their new venture, First Look Media's digital journal The Intercept, investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald reveal the National Security Agency is using …