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Over at the New Republic, Sean Wilentz has this fascinating long piece about the ideologies of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Glenn Greenwald.
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The Washington Post reported last week that the salaries for the federal judiciary increased on January 1 after federal judges won a class action lawsuit last year challenging Congress’s refusal to give ...
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Washingtonian has this remarkable piece by Asra Nomani, journalist and dear friend to The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl. As is well known, Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002 and gruesomely beh...
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As The New York Times and Washington Post reported, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is going to issue a report on section 215 of FISA and the te
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Switzerland happens to be the location of a lot of action---or inaction---in the world:
As Clara noted, peace talks on Syria began in Montreux yesterday, and quickly spiraled into finger-pointing, accus...
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Here it is, via Ars Technica.
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I am a big fan of Peter Bergen. His book, Manhunt, about the search for Osama Bin Laden is one of the most useful and informative and gripping reads on a counterterrorism matter I have come across in a l...
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Last week PBS 'Frontline' released a short documentary on life under the Kim Jong Un regime (trailer below). Using illegal footage provided by an undercover network of journalists and North Koreans as a ...
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A report surfaced yesterday which details accusations of horrendous and wide-sweeping torture tactics employed by the Syrian government.
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It's been a busy day in cyber-related news. The last entry (for now) is the announcement in Davos of the creation of a Global Commission on Internet Governance. As readers of this blog know, I think th...
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Meanwhile, Verizon today became the first major telecommunications company to issue a transparency report about its interactions with the government when data about user activity is sought.
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CrowdStrike, a US-based cybersecurity company, has just released its annual Global Threat Report 2013. For those who follow the area, the report reflects some interesting (and disturbing) trends in mali...
