British Spy Agency Practiced Scooping Up Journalists' E-mails
Ten minutes of communications at news outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times, and NBC collected.
Culture
Search Engines Trump Traditional Media as Most-Trusted by Millennials
In Google News we trust.
Reason and Science Make Us Moral: Michael Shermer on The Moral Arc
Skeptic magazine editor discusses his new book.
What Both Pauls Got Wrong About the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Ron Paul's blowback didn't cause the attack and Rand Paul's war on immigration won't cure it.
Aversion to Truth Isn't Specific to Any Ideology
When it comes to the truth, the real bias is thinking any one side has a monopoly on it.
VID: Campbell Brown on Her Fight To Get Lousy Teachers Fired
The former CNN journalist has a new career as an ed reformer.
Inside Stalin's Head
A biography offers fresh insights on one of history's bloodiest dictators.
California's Foie Gras Ban Was Overturned. Now See How It Passed in the First Place.
Special interests, threats, and propaganda
Obama's 2014 State of the Union Scorecard
The president didn't get much of his wish list last year and he'll get even less this time. That's a good thing.
Charlie Hebdo: Rand and Ron Paul's Lowpoint
Blowback isn't the cause and immigration restrictions aren't the cure
John Kerry Has James Taylor Sing 'You've Got a Friend' to the French
Maybe it's better to stay home.
American Sniper and Blackhat
Bradley Cooper commandeers Clint Eastwood's powerful war movie, Chris Hemsworth withers in Michael Mann's cyber-crime misfire.
Good News and Bad News, for Fans of The Independents
Five days a week instead of four, but minus the Pips
What Pope Francis Got Wrong About Free Expression
The right of people to be critical of religion-even their own-is a defense of the common good.
"The Increasingly Irrelevant Christian Primary" for the Republican Nomination
The GOP should stop talking about bringing God back and start talking about cutting spending and regulation.
Women's College Cancels 'Vagina Monologues' Because It Excludes Women Without Vaginas
Good riddance! Yet I just can't get on board with the logic of Mount Holyoke's dismissal...
Man Files Religious Discrimination Complaint Over Bakery's Refusal to Make Anti-Gay Cake
Does it matter, under the law, whether the baker agrees with the sentiment?
It's Time To Argue About This Year's Oscar Nominations
There's a big gap between the blockbusters that people pay to see and the movies Hollywood awards itself for making.
UVA Updates: 2 Frats Refuse Sex and Alcohol Demands, Phi Psi Speaks Out, Rolling Stone Still in Denial
It remains to be seen whether UVA will tolerate this defiance.
Orwell's 1984 Still Matters, Though Not in the Way You Might Think
A Washington, D.C., readathon reminds us that the left once hated this anti-totalitarian classic.
Sky News Really Doesn't Want to Show the New Charlie Hebdo Cover
Self-censorship in action
French Government Shows Stunning Hypocrisy on Free Speech
Arrests for speech at a march in support of free speech? Mais oui!
In Seattle, Crime of 'Patronizing a Prostitute' Redefined as 'Sexual Exploitation'
'Words matter,' said Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes.
New York Times Editor Dean Baquet Continues to Beclown Self Over Charlie Hebdo Cartoons
The Paper of Record is in the increasingly lonely position of not reprinting newsworthy cartoon image, yet agonizing over it
Charlie Hebdo, Hate Speech and Christopher Hitchens
Be It Resolved: Freedom of Speech Includes the Freedom to Hate.
Remember When 2,000 to 5,000 Al Qaeda Operatives Had Supposedly Infiltrated America?
A litany of failed forecasts about terrorism
Why the Prosecution of Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht is "The Most Important Trial in America"
Pay attention if you care about due process, Fourth Amendment protections against illegal searches, the limits of government surveillance, and Internet freedom.
Sandy Hook Parents Sue School Over Safety Issues
Behaving as if mass death is lurking around every corner won't make our kids any safer.
Charlie Hebdo and the Wimpiness of the Press
Major journalistic outlets may applaud Charlie Hebdo's defiance of terrorists, but they can't bring themselves to emulate it.
On The Independents: The Best of 2014
Featuring Montel Williams, Killer Mike, John Bolton, K-Walking, Keepin' it Kmele, Where it's Matt, and Two Minutes Hate!
Religious Liberty Isn't a 'Dog Whistle'—It's a Necessary Practice of a Free Society
Frank Bruni, New York Times columnist, doesn't seem to understand the First Amendment very well.
George Clooney's Human-Rights-Lawyer Wife Is Helping Prosecute a Turk for Denying the Armenian Genocide
Days after her husband's 'Je suis Charlie' speech, Amal Clooney is fighting to deny the human right to express disbelief in a historical fact
