How Putin Controls the Internet and Popular Opinion in Russia
A new book by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan reveals the subtle as well as forceful pressures that persuade Russian technology companies to comply with government censorship.
A new book by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan reveals the subtle as well as forceful pressures that persuade Russian technology companies to comply with government censorship.
Solitary confinement in California’s state prisons was drastically reduced, but the practice continues in county jails — and they’re not prepared for it.
“The idea is that drug usage, if there is a harm, is only self-injury, only harms the individual and thus cannot be the object of state punishment.”
“Many of the questions we are hoping that the documents will answer involve filling out the picture,” says Dror Ladin, a staff attorney with the ACLU.
Kurdish militias have provided a rare bright spot in the battle against the Islamic State. But they're being left high and dry as Turkey flexes its political muscle in Washington and applies its military might in the region.
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In the midst of a very effective speech in defense of an important deal with Iran, Obama proudly summarizes a disgraceful part of his legacy: one of militarism and aggression.
Relatives of the key witness who sent Richard Glossip to die say the state got the wrong story. Yet Oklahoma plans to execute him on September 16.
A new film by Heloisa Passos for Field of Vision explores the profound and complex relationship between dogs and homeless people in Rio de Janeiro.
In a eye-popping bit of irony — even by Washington standards — a report despairing over the federal government cyber-brain drain was written by Booz Allen Hamilton, the giant "Beltway Bandit" government contractor known for regularly raiding the best and brightest.
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