Be Very Afraid
What we should have known about government spying before Edward Snowden's leak, why even innocent people have plenty to fear, and what you can do about it
October 2013
Be Paranoid
We're only beginning to learn what the executive branch can do to us.
Features
Executive Branch 'Dictatorship'
Dirty Wars author Jeremy Scahill on rendition, torture, drones, and how American power operates beyond the law
Culture & Reviews
America the Paranoid
From the man who tried to shoot Andrew Jackson to The War of the Worlds, a brief history of political paranoia from Jesse Walker's The United States of Paranoia
The Endless Lives of Iain M. Banks
The late science fiction novelist grappled with a fundamental existential-and libertarian-question.
Big Labor Stumbles in Wisconsin
In a showdown with Gov. Scott Walker, democracy is the big winner.
Columns
Obama's Flip-Flop on Spying
How the president learned to stop worrying and love unaccountable surveillance
The GOP Flirts With Class Warfare
Will Republicans abandon Ronald Reagan's principles for Rick Santorum's populism?
Does the Royal Baby Deserve Genetic Privacy?
Revelations about the British princeling's ancestry should remind us that DNA testing is no big deal.
Replacing Street Lights With Glowing Trees
A tale of crowdsourced DIY bioengineering
Briefly Noted
Letters
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