Part of the reason for the absence of congressional scrutiny of US massive surveillance programs is that congresscritters not on the intelligence committee are denied information about them.

The UK government is underfunding the NHS so much that it will face pressure to start charging for medical care.

The ACLU has become concerned with some of the consequences of nonfree software designed to restrict people.

I hope the ACLU will recognize that the fix for this is free software.

Americans have been led to forget their tradition of massive strikes against the plutocracy.

Searching the internet for information inflates people's sense of how much they know and how smart they are.