A United Nations committee of independent monitors this week released a damning assessment of human rights in the United States, showing an overall dismal performance…
Civil and political rights
Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction. It is the fiction that the organs of internal security, especially the judiciary…
It’s well established that the FBI surveilled civil rights and other activists from Martin Luther King Jr. to leaders of the National Lawyers Guild as…
Prominent national security whistleblowers are calling for the full repeal of the USA Patriot Act, charging that under that legislation the federal government has decimated…
So we’re in the midst of another round of climate-change related mud slinging. The latest issue of National Geographic, “The War on Science”, was seen to…
Triumph for Internet Neutrality The Federal Communications Commission last week ruled that the Internet should be regulated like a public utility, with no fast or…