The Amash-Conyers amendment to reign in the NSA failed by about 7 votes.
If the Egyptian military won’t let voters deal with the consequences of poor choices, they will never understand what democracy is.
Based on the storage capabilities already available to the private sector, the NSA could store voice communications on an unprecedented scale.
Glenn Greenwald teases an upcoming story about the NSA’s technical capability to “redirect and store” up to a billion phone calls per day.
The real threat of an unbound surveillance state is that it *doesn’t* need to listen to your phone calls or read your email to know everything that it wants to know about you.
The government is not powerless to seriously increase voting rights.
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory’s job approval rating is sinking fast and voters are strongly opposed to the conservative government’s agenda.
Five ways the Supreme Court could rule on same-sex marriage on Monday.
Edward Snowden met with an ambassador from Ecuador in Moscow sometime today, after flying from Hong Kong.
Edward Snowden answers questions for the public about what he did and why.