If "big data" surveillance records become available to everyone, many people will misuse them much as the US government does now.

The US has failed to show valid arguments to conclude that attacking Syria is "necessary" to avoid a worse evil.

Poor people lack more than money — they lack bandwidth to confront all the stressful problems of their lives, and that leads systematically to bad thinking.

Snowden's disclosures underscore the importance of correcting some flaws in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, even though it is not enough to make email respect our privacy.

Public Radio Journalists in Tunisia Go on Strike to Protest Political Interference.

Tunisian rappers were sentenced to prison for a song that criticized the thugs. Before arresting them, the thugs beat them up. Whatever the criticism was, the thugs probably deserve it.