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President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the country’s law enforcement has cleared the Senate. The Senate voted 52-47 on Wednesday to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions, whose record on civil liberties issues—including digital rights—has drawn fire from Democratic...
Kate Tummarello | Feb 10, 2017
Stoking public fear is a bipartisan White House tradition to boost presidential power. President Trump is being reviled for wildly exaggerating the peril of Muslim refugees. Some commentators fret that his rhetoric signals a new fascist era descending on America. A...
Jim Bovard | Feb 10, 2017
Many are still unclear how immigration would work in a free society, where ‘property rights’ is not just an ambiguous expression, but a compatible social framework. If all land was privatized, including the roads, waterways, forests, airports, etc… how would...
Salmaan Khan | Feb 10, 2017
Journalism, Activism, Hacktivism and a New Civic Platform Barrett Brown thinks big. Brown was released from federal prison on November 29 after four years of incarceration for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor. The hack — for which the hacker group...
Jeff Schechtman | Feb 8, 2017
President Trump’s executive order is facing numerous court challenges, including a temporary restraining order. My colleague David Bier has made a convincing statutoryargument that Trump’s temporarily ban on issuing visas to the nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria,...
Alex Nowrasteh | Feb 7, 2017
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday there was "no reason" to curb law enforcement agencies that seize cash, vehicles and other assets of people suspected of crimes, a practice that some lawmakers and activists have criticized for denying legal rights. The issue...
Emily Stephenson | Feb 7, 2017
Back during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump was fond of suggesting that cuts in "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the federal government would be sufficient to balance the budget. This never made too much sense--because the federal deficit is far larger than...
Eric Schuler | Feb 7, 2017
The use of the internet by more and more people to participate in the political culture of this country and worldwide has made more extreme and radicalized nearly everyone who engages in it. People with whom you’d seldom have an interaction with in your every day,...
Phil Brown | Feb 7, 2017
