How to Keep Your Government from Spying on You
Or at least make it more difficult.
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NSA Confidential: We Love Big Brother If He's Got the Right Party Affiliation
Our willingness to choose partisanship over principles helps explain the surveillance state.
Man of Steel and The Bling Ring
Superman returns yet again, and teenage fame junkies make housecalls.
Do the Zazi and Headley Arrests Prove the Power of NSA Total Surveillance?
Sorry, Sen. Feinstein and Rep. Rogers, it's not even close.
The Left's Phony Defense of Freedom
The NSA scandal didn't just reveal PRISM. It also exposed serious hypocrisy in the Democratic Party.
The Executive Branch Is Growing More Powerful at Democracy's Expense
We still have a democracy in America. It's just not connected to anything.
The NSA Scandal Violates the Lessons of Our History and Our Constitution
We're tumbling down a slippery slope.
3 Reasons the 'Nothing to Hide' Crowd Should Be Worried About Government Surveillance
Most people think the federal government would have no interest in them, but many discover to their horror how wrong they are
Big Brother Is Watching You
Politicians may be fine with the surveillance state, but they can't force you to be.
Why Libertarians Have Better Things to Worry About Than the NSA
Neither terrorism nor the NSA are the greatest threats to American liberty.
This Is the End
A new beginning for Seth Rogen, James Franco, and the rest of the Apatow all-stars.
We're Only Spying on Ourselves
How Obama learned to stop worrying and love unaccountable surveillance
4 Ways the Fourth Amendment's Already Being Pummeled in a Non-Top Secret Way
The government will always insist it's acting within the law.
Canada's Tories Show How the GOP Can Win Immigrant Votes
Freebies are not the way to the heart of minorities.
FDR's Friend in New York
How Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia transformed the American state.
How Regulators Enticed Verizon to Sell Out Customers to the NSA
The telecompany's explanation for colluding with the FBI, FCC, DOD, etc.
The Real Problem With the NSA's Indiscriminate Spying
Innocent people should not be punished in the pursuit of the guilty.
Obama's Failures in Afghanistan
The Obama Administration has continuously deceived us about how bad the war in Afghanistan is going.
Jaron Lanier's Strange Fantasy
A social critic has a bizarre proposal to save the middle class.
Meet the New Farm Bill, Same as the Old Farm Bill
Taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance, like all farm subsidies, is a costly bipartisan disaster.
Michael Lind's Obtuse Attack on Liberty and Libertarianism
Statists like him are on the wrong side of history
Why New Urbanism Doesn't Work
The latest trend in urban planning builds bureaucracy, not affordable living.
The Internship and Much Ado About Nothing
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in Google land, Shakespeare in Santa Monica
How Our Right To Travel Became a Bureaucratic Ordeal
Just decades after passports became mandatory for international travel, even domestic journeys have become a rule-bound hassle
Unlocking Your Cell Phone Shouldn't Be a Crime!
How to fix one of the dumbest laws out there.
How Immigration Reform Will Harm U.S. Citizens
E-verify means new restrictions on both immigrants and citizens.
GOP: Go Young or Go Home!
To win Millennials, Republicans must channel their inner libertarian.
What If Government Officials Broke the Laws We Hired Them to Enforce?
What if they prosecuted others for breaking the same laws they broke?
Baseball's Steroid Collusion With the Feds
Major League Baseball continues its unholy alliance with government in a mutual quest to shame ballplayers
Unless We Change Some Things, America Will Eventually Go Broke
The first step toward a solution is just being honest about the deep hole we're in.
The Citizens United Backlash Threatens Basic Rights
Censoring corporations is effectively censoring ourselves.
Antonin Scalia, Bleeding-Heart Liberal
A Fourth Amendment case shows once again that the justice does not live up to his authoritarian reputation.
Obama's Flight from Responsibility
The president needs to take responsibility for the actions of his own administration.
The Legacy of Frank Lautenberg
The late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's true legacy is one of entrepreneurship.
No More Tax Dollars for Sports Stadiums
Minor league teams offer empty promises and empty stadiums.
Obama's Willful Foreign-Policy Blindness
There is a vast chasm between "saying" and "doing" in the Obama administration.
Doc Savage
America's most infamous advice columnist offers an uneven collection of insights and platitudes.
India Needs to Get Over Its Prudish Sexual Attitudes
"Eve teasing" is a symptom of sexual repression.
