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Hints Surface That NSA Building Massive, Pervasive Surveillance Capability
Despite U.S. intelligence officialsu2019 repeated denials that the National Security Agency is collecting the content of domestic emails and phone calls, evidence is mounting that the agencyu2019s vast surveillance …
Five “High-Value” Guantanamo Detainees Improperly Presumed Guilty
Everyone charged with a crime under US law is to be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. But June pre-trial hearings in the cases of five men charged …
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Group Claims New AMA Policy Sanctions Discrimination Based on Body Size
The medical community has been divided for years over whether obesity should be classified as a disease.
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A Culture of Abuse: Why Some Immigrant Rights Advocates Oppose the Senate’s Reform Package
Immigration reform faces a tough road ahead as Republicans seize the chance to bolster border security.
Eavesdropping On the Planet
The above is the title of an essay that I wrote in 2000 that appeared as a chapter in my book Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only …
The Voting Rights Act: On Not Sleep-Walking through History
For me, and most of us, last week was a dizzying one. It found the Supreme Court of the United States doing away with the Defense of Marriage Act, …
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Edward Snowden’s Long Flight: What a Whistleblower Thinks a Fellow Whistleblower Might Have Thought
Fellow whistleblower Peter Van Buren reflects on Edward Snowden and the confusion he must feel as he attempts to run away from the US.
From the Philippines to the NSA: 111 Years of the US Surveillance State
The National Security apparatus that seemed to have lost much of its purpose with the fall of the Soviet Union got a new lease on life.
With the NSA Leaks, Character, Actions, and Intentions Matter
Edward Snowden's leaks of top-secret NSA documents has unleashed a wave of very strong feelings of anger and betrayal – of the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable and unwarranted …
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Food for Thought on Paula Deen
Eugene Robinson looks at the Paula Deens scandal and the slippery slope of that nostalgic longing for the good old days of the antebellum south.