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Parkinson’s and Disability Have an Image Problem, and Michael J. Fox Isn’t Helping
The The Michael J. Fox Show is a fitting welcome back party for a beloved sitcom veteran, but thereu2019s no trace of serious symptoms and minimizes descrimination and other …
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Living the Orwellian Life
America has a tradition of spying on its own, something George Orwell predicted long ago in his novel 1984.
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Star Trek and the NSA
In which the head of the NSA is found to have more in common with the Borg than with Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
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Old Game, New Obsession, New Enemy: Now it’s China
More than jihadism or Iran, China is now Washington's obsession in Africa and beyond.
The Etiquette of War and Surveillance: Letters to Colonel Manners (Ret.)
Colonel Manners (ret.) answers letters from Americans puzzled by the etiquette, manners and language of the arcane national security world of Washington.
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How a Telecom Helped the Government Spy on Me
What happened next says a lot about what happens when the governmentu2019s privacy protections collide with the day-to-day realities of global surveillance.
What You Don’t Know About The NSA Spying Scandal
Are we living in a time of inverted totalitarianism?
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Obama’s Justice Department: Trumpeting a New Victory in War on Freedom of the Press
Thereu2019s something profoundly despicable about a Justice Department that would brazenly violate the First and Fourth Amendments while spying on journalists.
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Without Privacy There Can Be No Democracy
The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, spoke this morning at the United Nations and delivered a powerful indictment of spying by the NSA on behalf of the United States.
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Path to Autocracy: Could America Become a Police State?
Security lobbyists, the media and the government itself continue to stoke public fears of another attack on ‘the homeland.’