| Mar 2, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyCivil liberties fans in the United States recently got an unlikely champion: the CEO of Apple. In a high-profile spat with the White House, Tim Cook has emerged as a leading spokesperson against the Obama administration’s efforts to weaken Americans’ constitutional...
| Jun 17, 2015 | Peace / SecurityI’ve gotten a lot of unwelcome mail from the feds these last few years, like a copy of my indictment for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program. But this latest delivery was something altogether new. My jaw dropped as I scanned the form letter from the...
| Dec 17, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyThe death of the Internet is at hand. Sound familiar? That’s what Internet pioneer Robert Metcalfe predicted in 1995 when he wrote that spiraling demands on the fledgling network would cause the Internet to “catastrophically collapse” by 1996. Metcalfe, of...
| Mar 11, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyMedical science has long known that the optic nerve runs from the retina of our eyeballs to the visual cortex of our brains, letting us see what’s going on around us. Don’t look now, but another “optic nerve” has evolved. Rather than running to...
| Oct 31, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyAmerica has always had political campaigns that dig into the muck of their opponents’ personal lives, then fling any nasty nuggets of negativity they find right into the face of voters. But this year is different. Not, of course, because there’s any less...
