Every Fourth of July, the New York Times prints the entire Declaration of Independence of the United States on the

My post about how a central claim of the PRISM story turns out not to be true has drawn a

Over and over we’ve read that Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, claimed that its massive surveillance program

[Note: This post now uses the phrase “collect-then-select”, instead of “collect-then-analyze”, which wasn’t quite as accurate. Other than that, and

[Update 2013-06-13: See Rick Perlstein’s piece about this on The Nation’s blog. Glenn Greenwald later responded here.] Mark Jaquith’s post

At the end of the post is a list of updates about new client-side betrayals I’ve noticed since this was

[I recently found this unpublished draft sitting in my CivicCommons Tumblr account.  I’m not sure why I didn’t post it

Hmmm, wouldn’t that be a “Spirit Guard”? (Or perhaps “Zombie Guard”?) Compound words and hyphenation… two great tastes that go

ANVC Scalar looks very promising: Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it

I just read Evgeny Morozov’s critique of Tim O’Reilly in the Baffler. It misses its mark pretty widely. I know