The Movement to Fight Big Money Politics Now Has a Gold Standard
We may not be doomed to spend the rest of our lives thinking of disgusting things to which to compare the American political process.
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Joe Biden: Some Democrat Who’s Not Him Should “Get Private Money Out of Politics”
Vice President Biden called upon other Democrats to refuse to take large donations from "millionaires and billionaires" in party primaries.
FBI Director Says Scientists Are Wrong, Pitches Imaginary Solution to Encryption Dilemma
Comey refused to accept the nearly universal agreement among technologists that there is no way to give the government access to encrypted communications without risking national security.
Psychologist’s Work for GCHQ Deception Unit Inflames Debate Among Peers
Dr. Mandeep K. Dhami wrote a 42-page paper advising the controversial GCHQ spy unit JTRIG — work some peers have blasted as unethical. JTRIG aims to "discredit," promote "distrust," "dissuade," "deceive," "disrupt," "delay," "deny," "denigrate/degrade," and "deter."
AEI Expert: Iranians Think “Very Differently” From Us Because They're “Nationalists”
Iranians: are they normal human beings like us, or are they weirdos whose foreign, mysterious thought processes can only be understood by experts like Michael Rubin?
U.S. Special Forces Expand Training to Allies With Histories of Abuse
A shadowy Pentagon program to share elite skills with troubled security forces has expanded since 9/11 with little scrutiny. A thinly funded vetting process rarely stands in the way of training Saudi, Bahraini, Colombian or Chadian forces.
An FBI Informant Seduced Eric McDavid Into a Bomb Plot. Then the Government Lied About It.
Prosecutors failed to disclose key evidence that suggested an informant had enticed Eric McDavid with the prospect of a romantic relationship.
Obama Could Fix Dark Money, But Would Rather Just Yell at Republicans About It
President Obama has been denouncing "dark money" since 2010, when he declared it a "threat to our democracy." But Obama doesn't need Congress to force dark money into the sunlight.
The Long Sad Slide From Leading Civil Rights Organization to Anti-Black Lives Matter Group
The Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, was once a great civil rights organization. Then came Roy Innis.
Microsoft Gives Details About Its Controversial Disk Encryption
Computer security experts worry that BitLocker may be compromised by the government. Microsoft addressed some of those concerns for <em>The Intercept</em> — and left some unanswered.